Georgia crisis prompts U.S. to cancel nuclear deal with Russia.(Inside Track)(Brief article)

In the remote Caucasus, the Georgian crisis drags on, with Georgia's President Saakashvili, emboldened by Western support, continuing to goad the Russian bear. And Western governments are vowing to force Moscow to yield to Georgia's demands. Saakashvili, let it be remembered, started a war to retake South Ossetia, a non-Georgian ethnic enclave that tried to secede from Georgia shortly after the latter's independence from the Soviet Union. But somehow the standard that Georgia has applied to itself--the right of self-determination--is not to apply to the Ossetians. The U.S.-supplied and trained Georgian military bombed Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, and killed a number of Russian peacekeeping troops in the bargain. When Russia retaliated, Georgia cried foul, and has been agitating to drag the rest of the world, and especially the United States, into a sordid affair that the United States should not become involved in.

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