Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, has been coddled by the Western media from the start. An American educated lawyer, he was described as a crusader against corruption and poverty. Critics describe him as an authoritarian demagogue and a skilful populist. He’s also obviously quite capable of huge political miscalculations. International Herald Tribune: Washington's hypocrisy: The U.S. administration is trying to stick the label of "bad guy" on Russia for exceeding the peacekeeping mandate and using "disproportionate force" in the peace-enforcement operation in Georgia. Maybe our American friends have gone blind and deaf at the same time. Mikheil Saakashvili, the president of Georgia, is known as a tough nationalist who didn't hide his intentions of forcing Ossetians and Abkhazians to live in his country. We were hoping that the U.S. administration, which had displayed so much kindness and touching care for the Georgian leader, would be able to save him from the maniacal desire to deal with the small and disobedient peoples of the Caucasus. But a terrible thing happened. The dog bit its master. Saakashvili gave an order to wipe Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, from the face of earth.