From a reader:

I agree – I think [Gorbachev] may have a point. The situation seems complex – and deeply tied to a recent history that few Americans understand. I’d love to see some more NRO (and other) discussion and coverage of our role in Georgia over the past several years, as well as Russia’s.
Poorly framed and communicated (at the very least) Russian response aside, where is the discussion about Georgia’s sudden eruption of violence? Was it justified? Was it justified but executed overzealously? I feel like I don’t have the information I yet need to decide.

And from another:

The Russian assertions that they were in the right cry out for the USA and EU to immediately ask the UN Security Council to send investigators into Georgia, including South Ossetia and Abkazia, to collect interviews and physical evidence (e.g. explosive residue samples) to identify what actually happened in the last weeks in Georgia, including whom fired on whom and in what order. This should occur ASAP to obtain the evidence before it is destroyed and interviews while memories are still fresh. Intelligence agencies could share photographic and signals intelligence where possible to add to the case. The Russians should applaud this sort of demonstration; afterall, they’ve started internal inquiries and a case at the ICC. If, on the other hand, the Russians sandbag the effort, well, that tells the people of the world something, no?