American charges of Russian aggression ring hollow. Georgia started this fight—Russia finished it
Russia’s response was “disproportionate” and “brutal,” wailed Bush.
True. But did we not authorize Israel to bomb Lebanon for 35 days in response to a border skirmish
Was that not many times more “disproportionate”?
Russia has invaded a sovereign country, railed Bush
But did not the United States bomb Serbia for 78 days and invade to force it to surrender a province, Kosovo, to which Serbia had a far greater historical claim than Georgia had to Abkhazia or South Ossetia
When the Soviet Union broke into 15 nations, we celebrated. When Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Kosovo broke from Serbia, we rejoiced. Why, then, the indignation when two provinces, whose peoples are ethnically separate from Georgians and who fought for their independence, should succeed in breaking away?
laudable only when they advance the agenda of the neocons
whom viscerally detest Russia?
clipped from: www.truthdig.com