Axe = Kremlin Shill?

"At DANGER ROOM and in The Economist’s online debate series, I have taken the position that Georgia provoked Russia into attacking South Ossetia, and then tried to lure the West into helping defend Georgia via a concerted propaganda campaign.
That makes me a “Kremlin dupe,” according to Pajamas Media. But what’s more befuddling is Pajamas’ attack on my credentials. Writes Kim Zigfeld:

Axe has made a few freelance trips to Iraq and calls himself a “military correspondent,” with his main claims to fame being that he (a) often writes about Iraq for Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times and The Village Voice and (b) he writes graphic novels about war. It doesn’t appear that he has any expertise in Russia at all, or any military or national security credentials.

Actually, that’s EIGHT trips to Iraq, plus trips to Afghanistan, East Timor, Lebanon, Somalia, Chad and Nicaragua — plus countless Stateside reporting enterprises. I have written not just for The Times and The Voice, but for literally hundreds of other publications. Therein lies my “military or national security expertise.” Yes, I write books, including graphic novels. I also play Xbox and eat frozen pizzas and partake in other activities that, in fact, have nothing to do with my reporting."
War is Boring

"As for the criticism that has cascaded down on his government, Mr. Putin expressed only bafflement that those in the West did not accept Russia’s explanation that it had simply acted in defense of its citizens. How did they expect Russia to respond to the shelling of its peacekeepers in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, he asked — with “slingshots?” Did they expect him to “brandish a penknife?”"

Bafflement is why it make a difference if its a Georgian, or a Russian, that fired the first bullet.

So if a Georgian picked up a Russian blogger and shot him in the head, before pushing him out of a moving car, it matters to Putin?, but not when it happens every other day in Russia, or it's satellites?

Or how about the assassination of a dissident in the UK with a radiological poison? One of the worst acts of international terrorism in modern history. To do it they contaminated a restaurant, a hotel, and an airliner!

An act or war had it been done by any other nation.

I personally do want to hear about who fired the first shot, or who is putting out the best propaganda, (a bonifide weapon of war), but none of it should affect who's side I am on, or who is in the right.