Who's responsible for the bruhaha in the Caucasus and why. Tom Friedman confirms: Putin, Saakashvili, Bush, Clinton. It began with NATO expansion when the Soviet Union disintegrated. We fed Russian paranoia.

Is our 'make the world safe for democracy' strategy actually making a new cold war with Russia? The Russian response and the NATO threats are here.

Predictably, the Russian people are hearing a very different story.

And in Germany, Putin's response over Georgia is compared to Kennedy's response to the Cuban missiles crisis.