@Lifeofthemind:

Maybe so in South Ossettia; perhaps the Georgians will be stuck with a scenario like that there.

Abkhazia is completely different. The stakes are much higher, the Russian force is physically huge, and the population has a large proportion of ethnic Russians who murdered (ethnically cleansed) 30,000+ Georgians not too long ago.

Just sayin’, but I don’t think we want the Russian position in Abkhazia to be physically threatened other than for purposes of containment, which will be hard enough to pull off.