The horror. They disorganized the Georgian military. More like the Georgians have regrouped into a tenable defensible position around the southern Caucasus range. Obviously the Russian planners had calculated that the Georgian army would be destroyed before it could reach that defensible position.
Again you are still in the mindset of Russia taking the whole of Georgia. You are still in the mindset of the sky is falling and that Russia wanted to re-occupy the whole of the Caucasus.
How long will it be before all the armchair generals on freepers come out claiming that it was the U.S carrier battle groups or that President Bush threatened all out war with Russia? Most people didn’t stop and think exactly what the Russian aims were exactly. All they could think of is the the ‘Evil Empire is on the move again’ and that the sky is falling!