You're arguing like a lawyer, pdq. A lawyer argues for the written letter, but not the spirit of the law. This is okay if you think that laws written down by someone on a piece of paper are more important than people's real concerns and human rights, and more important than reality. It's hypocritical in the extreme.

It is the foundation of most political chicanery and hypocrisy.

The reality, regardless of who the hell in the world officially recognizes what about South Ossetia, is that the South Ossetians do not want to be part of Georgia, they have fought for independence from Georgian and won it, they have been openly attacked by Georgia now, and Georgia is in the wrong to have done that. If the majority of the South Ossetian population wants to leave Georgia and join Russia, you have nothing to say about it and the USA has nothing to say about it, because it's none of your business. It's their business.

The Georgians blew it. Tough. They made a serious error.