How can McCain justify support for independence of Kosovo from Serbia, while denouncing a similar claim by...?

Question

a Georgian ethnic minority in South Ossetia, which overwhelmingly (90%) Voted for Independence in 2006?

Georgian President Saakashvili's attempt to compare the Russian response with that of the "Stalinist Soviet Union" is a nutty reference to a Georgian-born tyrant who ruled Russia and who is still revered in much of his native Georgia. But when you need a new Stalin to get a Cold War going, President Dmitry Medvedev and the elected members of a unanimous Russian parliament will have to do. And McCain is very happy to have this card to play.

McCain can win only as a war president. He neither knows nor cares much about the economic meltdown, which is the consequence of the deregulation mania that he has supported at every turn during his career in the Senate. If McCain had to run on his economic policy record in the Senate, he might be a loser even in his home state of Arizona, whose residents are suffering mightily from economic disarray presided over by the Republicans. Better to dwell on the dubious success of the surge in Iraq than on the surge in home mortgage foreclosures and the price of gasoline that has crippled Arizona's and the nation's economy. Still better to change the subject to the Russians and Georgia rather than dwell overly long on the disaster of Iraq, which has cost our nation trillions of dollars and where the prime minister now is far more zealous than Barack Obama in calling for an early withdrawal of U.S. troops. But whatever McCain's problems from cheerleading for Bush's war, they pale in comparison to his vulnerability on the most pressing domestic issues.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/27-9

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6140448.stm

Answer 1

Because McCain doesn't care about the people of South Ossetia and will only support a groups independence if it protects national interests or if the government gets something out of it.

Answer 2

Kosovo was a peaceful break up. where as the georgia deal is terrorists supported by moscow trying to destroy a sovereign nation. Me thinks you are a socialist that wants the USA destroyed. Well your butty obama will see to it that it happens. After all he bragged he would have a chitchat with the maniac in charge of Iran. just like Neville Chamberlain sat down to chit chat with Adolph Hitler. We all know how that turned out.