@Annoy Mouse

More telling from the NRO article:
It is astonishing that Georgia seemed intent to encircle and bombard the South Ossetian capital, full of civilians.

This and the early images of MRLS salvos against Tskinvali is what makes it hard for me to cleanly support the Georgians. I do think the Russians suckered them, but still, the best reason I have left to support them is to prevent momentum building against Ukraine and the other budding democracies.