I’m more confused than ever.
Our friends Sylwester and Ukdude make much of the fact that refugees from S. Ossetia are going north into Russia.
But, if the Roki Tunnel is the only possible route and we know that Russian tank columns are entering S. Ossetia on this circuitous two lane road, how are the reported 30,000 refugees getting through?
This number of refugees clogging the road would be almost as much of an obstacle to an orderly Russian advance as Georgian special forces would be.
Does anybody here believe that the Russian military is humanitarian enough, or even competent enough, to allow the unorganized movement of that many civilians against their line of march?
Either the number quoted, 30,000 refugees – almost half of the population of S. Ossetia – is greatly exaggerated, or a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as these 1000′s of people are forced off the road by the Russian advance.