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  A confused and dangerous situation and one has to question where it will lead. When is an ethnic community able to call itself independent. The former Yugoslavian states were able to get recognition, although Macedonia with its half dozen tanks and couple of helicopters had to change its name because Greece was afraid of terretorial claims based on Alexander the greats dad. Slovakia and the Czech Republic were both recognised but Kosova, Chechnya and Iraqi Kurdistan are not. South Ossetia is supported by Russia but what if they want union with North Ossetia which is firmly in Russian territory? The other breakaway Georgian state, Abkhazia, is supported by Russia from their initial declaration. At the time ethnic Abkahazians made up 18% of the population of that region, although that figure was pushed up to 43% when Russian support led to thousands of ethnic Georgians fleeing the area.
  
  Will UN decisions help? UN resolutions have ordered Britain out of Gibralter (once) and Isreal out of its occupied areas (6 times) with no effect. The Western Sahara has been recognised as an independent state but is still occupied by (the pro western) Morocco.
  
  South Ossetia looks to be the latest in a long line of messy and tragic regional disputes where the answer seems to be shoot first and talk never. In the film 'Mars Invades' the American president asked, "why can't we all just get along?" He was then killed, anyone else see the symbolism for the state of our world?

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