The New York Times two front page articles on Georgia; two different sets of info

The 18 August 2008 New York Times has two articles on the crisis in the republic of Georgia. One by a trioka made up of Cooper, Chivers, & Levy; the other by an old friend of our Michael R. Gordon. If you read Cooper et al. 'How a squabble became a showdown', the reader would know that weeks before Saakashivili's troops went in to South Ossetia with guns blazing, Herr Bush had furnished not only military advisers and materiel, which are not necessarily a causus belli in themselves, but had helped put on Georgian soil Stinger missiles pointed northward, and capable of hitting targets in Russia. Additionally, Mr. Putin in his last days of his presidency had bluntly told Herr Bush that extending NATO membership to Georgia is a redline which Moscow would tolerate. Herr Bush ignored Putin's warning [which makes us recall the insouciance Herr Bush & co paid light attention to warnings of a terrorist plot on US soil before 11 September 2001, if anyone hasn't forgot. Herr Bush doesn't seem receptive to in your face alerts!]. And if anything, stinger missiles set Russia's teeth on edge, and Tiblisi foolhardy incursion into South Ossetia brought about a burning defeat for Saakashivili no matter how you look at it, and death and destruction not to speak of hardships and shame to Georgia and its people. Reading the infamous Michael R. Gordon, known for his cheer leading the US into war in Iraq and acting as a conduit for Cheney & crew and the intelligence community and the defence department, the eye will find that Russia to the belligerent party, installing after the rollback of Georgia's troops, SS-21 short range missiles in South Ossetia. A warning to Tiblisi to act within reason and remain in its own backyard. Gordon's cold warrior adrenalin is flowing again, and the old anti Soviet reflexes have not aged for him. A cool eye will see Gordon's interpretation for what it is, a call for Georgia to perserve against Moscow, which will bring further suffering to Tibilsi but not to comfortable Gordon who leads a rich, cushy life working for the New York Times and wittingly for the darker side of Herr Bush's fantasies.