There is a street in Tbilisi named after George W. Bush. Count the world’s capitals with a street named for an American president. It will not take you long.

For years, Georgia was the largest non-NATO contributor of troops in Afghanistan. For years, International Republican Institute polling found roughly three-quarters of Georgians backing a pro-Western course. I come from a family that spent three generations inside the Soviet system. We know what America is worth, precisely because we remember life without it.