If territorial sovereignty is no longer important..

Question

Why doesn't the US just go ahead and finish off Iran's nuclear ambitions? We have plenty of troops next door and 2 carrier groups offshore. Now with the Georgian troops all off the Iranian border we can mass our troops there and say we're policing the border in their place. What can Russia do, say "Don't do it" like we did to them.

Answer 1

Your actually on target as to why we are not going to actually do anything about Russia in this case.

The US cannot honor all of its commitments around the world..it is as simple as that.  Although we would like to ensure Black and Caspian Sea resources without having to deal with Russia or Iran, we also cannot do anything about that scenario until we deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions.  Our Israeli policy is going to trump our elites need for pursuing profit in the Caucusus this for now.

Think of it this way, if we were to push Russia on this issue, which we really cannot anyway, they might make it tougher on us with Iran by finishing the deal set up to supply them with S-300 anti-air missiles.  The Russians have already said regarding Kosovo to leave it up to the Serbs to deal with their sovereignty, we told them to shove it.  Now as everyone could have seen, they are telling us to shove it in the Caucusus break away regions.

The Georgians must have known what was going to happen, even they could not have been that stupid.  The Russians are going to deal with their backyard the same way we do with ours.  The only difference is ours has gotten a little too big....

We will attack Iran because that and disarming Hezbolla are our only Middle Eastern obstacles to imposing an Israeli sided peace for the region.  The Caucusus adventure will have to wait...