MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Aug. 8) -- The United States on Friday pushed for an immediate cease-fire in a fast-unfolding conflict between Russia and Georgia over the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia. ...... So, he chose a moment of Russian inattention (Putin at the Olympics, Medvedev on vacation) to invade South Ossetia. Of course, the puny South Ossetian military collapsed completely. Saakashvili expected that he would be forcing the hand of the United States (and ...
