Dave,

A lot of journalists seem predisposed to accepting, uncritically, the Russian line/lie about what this conflict is all about. And then people who seem clueless about the event just parrot what they read on the MSM. Not that all of the MSM carries the water for Putin. I read an article from the Guardian yesterday that was surprisingly harsh in its criticism of the Russians, essentially saying that the Ossetian clash was a set-up. And THAT coming from a Guardian U.K. journalist! The Troskysists over there must not be pleased with him or the Guardian for publishing it.