Well, like, if they had known that the Georgians were coming in, which, since it was a sneak attack, they didn't. In fact, Tskhinvali almost fell, the Georgianns being held off for the day and a half it took the Russians to show off by Ossetian militias and a few peacekeepers.
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 6:05 PM, boddi satva
> <lbo.boddi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > What the Russians needed to have on the ground when
> the Georgians came
> > in were lots and lots of cameras and persuasive people
> to describe
> > what was happening.