Scary? Yes, and unfortunate. I would be willing to bet that even MOST of the people who post here, and they tend to be better informed and more intelligent than the average American, could find Russia, perhaps Georgia, maybe even Chechnya on a map but have no idea about the causes of the war in Chechnya, the relationship between Georgia, Russia, and the Chechens, and think the Pankisi Gorge is a Greek restaurant.