RFE identifies this article as the viewpoint of the author & not RFE. If only the Wash. Post would have done the same with Kagan's article. This is very good article. It covers the facts and gives a very fair assessment of the goals of Russia, Georgia and the U.S. My opinion of Saakashvilli is he is a despot playing the west to his advantage. Only this time it backfired. This is the second article that identifies the culprit of the situation. The American media continually mentions Russia's attack & the killing of 2 thousand civilians. They definitely place the blame on Russia and not Georgia's attack on Ossetia that caused these deaths. This writer is courageous enough to identify the true culprit. Today anyone in the media who might desires to report the facts with integrity, risks losing his job. The corporate world so controls our media that you have to be extremely industrious to seek out the true facts. I enjoyed reading this article.