[Vision2020] The other side

[Loren Singh]

For a view of the other side of the story, take a look at Pravda's web page
(in English). As with the unspoken censorship of the John Edwards affair by
all the major media outlets, we now are getting a neo-Cold War propaganda
barrage by all the major media outlets
painting Georgia as the victim, the Russians as "over-reacting"
à la Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, etc.--the imperialist Russian
bear at it again. The other side--as portrayed on Russian TV
(available on U.S. cable TV) and Pravda--is that Georgia started
the conflict by sending its army into South Ossetia and brutalized
its civilian population there, many of whom were slaughtered or
sought refuge in North Ossetia (across the Russian border).
The Russians charge the Georgians with genocide, the Americans
with emboldening the Georgian regime to launch the
depredations, and with airlifting 800 Georgian troops from Iraq
to the fighting zone in South Ossetia. The U.S. press and GWB
talk about the "democratically elected government of Georgia"--
could it be like the "democratically elected" Hamas regime
in Gaza? There is nothing intrinsically virtuous about either
a "democratically elected" regime *or* the Georgian government--
except for their rhetorical usefulness to neo-cons and the
Neanderthals like Kristol, Kondracke, Krauthhammer,
Cheney, GWB, and their minions. And, yes, it is another
case of the proverbial pot calling the kettle "black."
WMDs, 9/11, "Mission Accomplished," Abu Ghraib, and Gitmo
invoking ethical and moral superiority over Putin, the KGB,
Gulags, Grozny, and the Red Army? What a hoot!

O.K., John McSame. You're ready to lead.
Where's your Surge to take on the Red Army in Georgia?
Oh, GWB, ahem, how about setting a timetable for the
Red Army to get out of Georgia? Or else! As long as it takes.
Stay the course....
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