Texas Hold 'em vs. Russian Roulette

Austin Bay discusses potential military responses to assist Georgia against Russia. The best suggestion recommends a peacekeeping brigade:

"A peacekeeping brigade comprises at least two engineer battalions with attached military police, medical, Civil Affairs, signal units and lots of media connectivity. Cameras matter. Add State Department personnel. Add Special Forces with their linguistic talents and a light infantry battalion for local security. Embed non-governmental organizations with the guts to participate and promise support to NGOs who choose to operate on their own but would accept clean water and blankets. Why, Mr. President, you can help the human shields. Aren’t they heading for Georgia to stop a super-power invasion? Tell the human shields our peacekeeping outfit will give them MREs and bandaids while they chain themselves to Georgian churches to protect them from Russian bombs."

Of course, the US military doesn't have such a brigade, but it would seem useful there. It would be daring the Russians to make war on actual American troops, with heavy media coverage. I especially like the idea of bringing out the human shields, although I wonder how many are left after they tried to "shield" Iraq before the war began. Heh heh.

Originally via Instapundit.