Today the New York Times has published a “Last Call” for a number of people to pose op/ed questions before the candidates as the debate approaches tonight. It’s interesting that the Democrat Bill Bradley has chosen to throw out the Russia-Georgia bone. He appears to fallen into that classic left-leaning trap we have described on this blog in the past (a trap that Obama has so far resisted), by which Democrats may accidentally find themselves cornered into the pro-Putin corner, finding themselves in the business of manufacturing excuses for unilateral war and producing legitimacy for Russia’s claim to a sphere of influence and the irrelevance of national sovereignty – at least for former Soviet nations. Logically, anyone opposed to the unilateral U.S. invasion of Iraq should also be opposed to the invasion of Georgia … in practice, we see that the opposite tends to be true. It’s easy to see why people are tempted to question support for Georgian sovereignty…