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Despite U.S. embarrassment at the humiliation of its Georgian ally, the U.S. Army's tankers and artillerymen at Fort Knox's armor school have been encouraged by the success of the Russian army's blitzkrieg. Moscow's triumph suggests that there is wisdom behind Defense Secretary Robert Gates' insistence that the U.S. be prepared to wage "full-spectrum operations" - not just the past five years of irregular warfare that America has been engaged in, with small units of soldiers patrolling Baghdad streets and Afghan mountains...
...Residents of a Soviet-era apartment block near the scene of a tank battle had gathered in the courtyard to watch on generator-powered TVs news reports of South Ossetian politicians decrying the genocide they claimed Georgian forces had carried out against their people. The residents sat and wrote out accounts of the attack, which one woman said would be sent to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France...
...filling out these forms so that people know there was a genocide here," she said. "We are writing so that people know exactly what happened here." She said about 100 people in the courtyard had already given their accounts of the Georgian attack on their neighborhood...
...Signs of the fighting are everywhere in this city smashed by two armies. At the destroyed hilltop fortress outpost of Russian peacekeepers who were based here before the war, the mutilated corpses of two Georgian soldiers lay bloated in the street. Both were stripped to their underwear. One lay on his back, with a stick propped between his shoulder and neck, a white plastic bag containing papers tied to the top. The second corpse had no arms or legs and looked as if it had been burnt...
...press tour returned from the outpost that had been destroyed and overrun by attacking Georgian tanks on the first day, four local residents had slung the body into a light blue medical cloth and were trying to get it into a yellow coffin. Neighbors stood out in the street, most holding their clothes over their faces because of the smell. Two or three times on the ride back out of the city, that same stench could be smelled...