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well, Roachboy, it seems to me that access to oil is a national security matter - at least until we come up with a non-petroleum based source of energy. As I've said before, if it was up to me we'd raise the gasoline tax to compel a price per gallon of at least $5-6, on national security grounds (others, too, such as environmental grounds, but hardly anyone really takes that seriously if it involves inconvenience). But we're not there, and we won't for a while, so we're stuck with a situation where, yes, we require access to petroleum and it is indeed a national security matter.
That being said, please explain why having Russia invade a country with an oil pipeline is in the US's interests? I don't see it. Or why pissing off Russia, which is a huge oil supplier, is in the US's interests? I don't see that either. So it comes back to what I said before, which is that these people do what is in their own interests - precisely like everyone else. Saakashvili might be a jerk but he's his own self-made jerk.
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