If there is a country that America is warried about, it's China and the next is perhaps India.
Why India? The US has excellent relations with India, especially since Pakistan has shown that it is not unconditionally supporting the "war on terrorism". Just look at the new nuclear cooperation treaties between the US and India...
As for Russia: if there's one area in the US budget that won't suffer any cuts, that's the defense budget, especially the missile defense budget that goes to the MDA. And all those guys working at the MDA and all their subcontractors thank ***** for having been so impulsive, yet so short-sighted as to invade an US ally, and reawakening the spectre of an aggressive superpower that needs to be contained.
Nothing spurns more the US than this recent feeling of helplessness and powerlessness to defend Georgia. This humiliation may have been a short-term gain for Russia, but it's a long term gain for the US military-industrial complex. Even now, in the midst of the worst financial and economic crisis the US is experiencing, people realize that Russia is still a danger and that there is a clear and present danger that they represent to the security of the US.
The war in Georgia helped reinforce this feeling and people in the US are less likely to oppose a huge military budget to boost missile defense and strategic defense as a whole.
And why all this? Just to provide ***** and his little helpers in the Kremlin with a short-term satisfaction of having dealt a blow to a mosquito-state on its borders? C'mon...!