When your family is in immediate danger, do you spend lots and lots of time pondering the suffering of the other side? Maybe you do, but I am pretty sure that most people simply don’t do that. And this isn’t a political issue but the problem of pure, instinctive terror. It’s human nature.

Moreover, where did Mr. Lashkhi said that the others “deserve” it? Please point out that statement in his writing. I’ve read this article twice. I don’t see it. I think you’re projecting.

I am personally appalled at the way the Western media has portrayed the Russians. There is a real conflict over there and the South Ossetians are being ignored. But this doesn’t mean that I couldn’t enjoy Mr. Lashkhi’s piece. On the contrary.

Every story has multiple sides.

You are forgeting one thing that the Gov’t has obligations to its people and while there may be Less than a million Ossetians in Russia proper they do constitute an electorate that wants their kin to be protected and not treaded upon.

Life is a circle, your government treated them badly starting two wars and driving people off their ancestral land and thats what you got in return. Poetic justice to some degree if you look at it objectively. But you won’t because you suffer while “they” deserve it cause they have a complex or aren’t like you.