The commonly reported story (which even yours truly repeated) was that the whole Georgian thing started when Georgia 'invaded' South Ossetia on the 7th August this year, however, would it surprise you to know that in fact it was Russia who started the whole thing on the day before?
"It wasn't about taking Ossetia back, it was about fighting their way through that town to get onto that road to slow the Russian advance."Read the whole thing.
Why is Georgia important? Because it is the resuming of the civilizational rift between superpowers since the Cold War. It is also bringing back to the fore the intellectual dishonesty of those that blame America and the West first for everything. You think Iraq was bad? Read the above article for heartwarming details on how the Russian soldiers watched while the irregular troops committed atrocities.
On the completely inadequate response from NATO and the West (which by the way, will have major repercussions down the track), Christopher Hitchens has this to say:
"It is now we, sunk in the banalities of democratic discourse, who stammer to find an apt form of words in which to defend and justify ourselves and our once-again menaced friends to the east."
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