South Ossetia and Abkhazia, another disputed region, broke away from Georgia in
the early 1990s after the Soviet Union fell apart.
Maybe, just maybe, the people who live there prefer to align with Russians rather than Georgians. I'd like to call on the carpet the cnuts who denounced this, our own American pols included, and ask them when they forgot what hypocrisy meant. Look at all of the efforts to support local sentiments in Bosnia and Kosovo: "we want to be out from under rule of X."
Maybe this is the same deal, and as Fox 3 says, the leadership in Georgia have not covered themselves in glory. My son in law has a very good friend living in Georgia now, teaching English. His experiences support what Fox3 says: basket case. Or has he says it with a pretty strong Texan accent:
"Them people are nuts from the get go."