Getting Past Mythmaking In Georgia - Washintonpost.com

Original: Getting Past Mythmaking In Georgia - Washintonpost.com

Thursday, November 20, 2008
Anne Applebaum - Anne Applebaum on the Propaganda Battle over Georgia - washingtonpost.com: "Their most important conclusion? Georgia started it and killed civilians in the process. My conclusion? We knew that already. We also knew, and have known for some time, that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is susceptible to extreme bouts of criminal foolhardiness...

There was, it seems, one minor miscalculation: As a very senior Russian official recently told a very senior European official, "we expected the Georgians to invade on August 8, not August 7."