Hypocrisy and the Georgian Conflict

The conflict in Georgia may have caused a reaction of shock here in the United States.  I was shocked, too, I admit.  Then my dad told me that the conflict between Georgia and Russia has been boiling for a long time.  To me, war of any kind is a shocking, gruesome, terrible thing.  I am absolutely bewildered by the fact that the world was made through war.

And I am not trying to be naive by saying this.  How is it that something so beautiful was created from something so ugly?  There, I put it bluntly: point blank.  War is a terrible thing.  Anything that involves dehumanizing another human being is detestable, at least in my opinion.

But hypocrisy is far worse.  Does President Bush clearly not see that we ourselves are in a war of our own?  To me, George W. Bush lives in a bubble.  Even though he has travelled to many different countries he continues to live in a bubble, inside himself, inhaling the dangerous air of closed-mindedness.  He seems to think, in my opinion that the US is the best country in the world.  The US is a great country, but certainly not for it's current administration.  The US is a great country because it still has great people.  There are amazing people doing extraordinary things.

I know that I am getting a bit off topic.  But please bear with me.  What Russia did is wrong, though they did have good reason.  That's one of the main things I do not like about war.  The reason's. There's also a reason for going.  But is their ever a reason for not going?  Why is it that war is often viewed as the only option, and never as a last resort?  It should be a last resort, at least according to the Just War Theory.