The Truth and War, Russia and Georgia

The New York Times: Reports that the death toll from the War between Georgia and Russia in South Ossetian is nearing the thousands, at present around 1,500 civilian deaths, on the military side the Russians are hitting Georgia itself as noted in early post, also it is reported that Georgia has had success it downing Russian Planes, the NYT reports 10 planes have been downed. This is good reprting by the NYT, when it does hard news without an agenda it should be appluded. As with all wars the truth will come out when the shooting war is over, but the question is when will this war end, what will the West do to protect Georgia from the Imperial ambitions of PM Putin. As stated in previous post this is the time to place lines in the sand, Russia has to be shown that this is another Afghanistan, even if the West has to military supply Georgia.