Georgia pulls out of South Ossetia
Bob Morris @ Aug 9th 2008 23:11 - Category: Unfiled Tags: Georgia, South Ossetia
An [Georgia] interior ministry spokesman told the BBC it was not a military defeat but a necessary step to protect civilians from a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Right. Not a defeat at all. Why would anyone think that after attacking your own breakaway province then retreating rapidly in the face of a vastly larger and better equipped army could be considered a defeat.
Russia now controls South Ossetia and may be attacking the capitol of Georgia.
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