"This whole thing has been engineered by Russia and they have to shown that they will not be allowed to get away with it." - My opinion CarolC which I am perfectly entitled to thank you very much.

That someone campaigning to become the President and Head of State of a Nation should promise to resolve internal conflicts within the country he hopes to lead is both perfectly reasonable and understandable.

By the bye what about "right of return" to those Georgian refugees who have had to flee from both "South Ossetia" and "Abkhazia" - Population of the latter plummeted from 525,061 in 1989 to just 215,972 in 2003 damn near 200,000 Georgians fled the area, ever heard of ethnic cleansing?

Of course the whole bloody situation was engineered by the Russians, you'd have to something slightly more than bone-thick to believe anything otherwise.