Too much of the reportedly bad reporting seems to me at least to have been tempered by hindsight, so the perspective is skewed in a different manner, as well as the glass becoming more or less clouded in spots.

What we knew to be true v. what we guessed was the case is now becoming what we can demonstrate to have been the case v. what logic suggests was the probable condition or state. Having watched, and warned on numerous occasions, the Russian peace keepers allowed rocket attacks and other attacks of an increasingly violent nature to be made on Georgia from S. Ossetia. Attacks which were certain to elicit a response from the Georgians south of the runaway Ossetia. When it came, the Russians used a number of excuses they knew to be false or at least were in a position to verify, including the sale and use of soviet armaments and genocide.

Can anyone say Gaza? G-O-R-I, Good!

Chaos is at some level described both mathematically and empirically as a method for achieving a change of state, or change of behavior. It is rarely the end in itself as I believe it was for especially sick and diabolical individuals like Saddam, but nearly always it is the means.