The justification is that history's most famous Georgian drew a line there on a map.
--- On Mon, 8/18/08, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
Anyway, what conceivable
>
> "justification" was there for the Georgian
> nomenklatura to impose an
> international boundary (wiped out within days by the
> Ossetians
> themselves) through the middle of Ossetia when such a
> boundary had
> never before existed in all history?