The South Ossetians

... are Orthodox Christians. This explains the strong bias against them by the neo-cons and the MSM. The Serbs, who have been brutalized by Western governments and misrepresented by the Western media for several decades, are also Orthodox Christians. Remember that Clinton, Albright, the U.N., and their neo-con brethren all chose to support the Muslims of Kosovo while they slaughtered and displaced the Christian Serbs from their homelands.