One Utah

Read the sad story in The New York Times about the Georgian retreat from South Ossetia, and you have to admit this fiasco is partly our fault– i.e. President George Bush’s fault.
One soldier, his face a mask of exhaustion, cradled a Kalashnikov.
“We killed as many of them as we could,” he said. “But [...]

Russian T-90 tanks advancing on Tskhinvali in South Ossetia.
This is going to go down in history as one of those miscalculations that led straight to disaster. Here’s the story in brief, based on a well-written article in The Telegraph and a column by Edward Lucas in The Times:
Following the dissolution of the Soviet [...]