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To: carranza2 who wrote (70383)	9/15/2008 6:25:02 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

When people are losing their houses and ending in big debt, they won't be too worried about border issues between Pakistan and Afghanistan with the USA taking unilateral action against Islamic Jihad. Nor will they be too worried about Georgia and the civil dispute between "Ossetia" and Georgia. If you look at a topographical map of Georgia and the close part of Russia, either South Ossetians are clinging to the last vestige of what was theirs across Georgia's plains, or they have come over the hills from Russia and have invaded the Georgian area. I'll ask Google or Cuil about linguistic and religious differences and I'm sure that will explain a lot. It seems daft to initiate nuclear war with Russia to resolve a dispute which looks like a couple of neighbouring Maori tribes continuing historical stone age territorial challenge. Mqurice PS: Sure enough, Google/Wikipedia has the story. Pathetic stuff and not worth a nuclear war because Mongols invaded hundreds of years ago. <<The Ossetians are originally descendants of the Alans, a Sarmatian tribe. They became Christians during the early Middle Ages, under Byzantine and Georgian influences. Under Mongol rule, they were pushed out of their medieval homeland south of the Don River in present-day Russia and part migrated towards and over the Caucasus mountains, to Georgia[36] where they formed three distinct territorial entities. Digor in the west came under the influence of the neighboring Kabard people, who introduced Islam. Tualläg in the south became what is now South Ossetia, part of the historical Georgian principality of Samachablo[37] where Ossetians found refuge from Mongol invaders. Iron in the north became what is now North Ossetia, under Russian rule from 1767. Most Ossetians are now Christian (approximately 61%); there is also a significant Muslim minority. >> Once again, religious cranks are involved.