“The strongarm tactics used by the western stooge, Yushchenko, are typical of the anti-democratic processes set in motion by a rampant and militant Washington, crushed in the grip on a monetarist, neo-conservative crypto-fascist clique of elitists, whose corporate greed speaks louder than the mores of international diplomacy and whose thirst to dominate the world’s resources in the lifetimes of Rumsfeld and Cheney throws any moral concept into the trash bin.” – Pravda on the Ukraine election struggle.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “Well the fact that he’s a gay Republican means he should join the Democratic party.” – Jerry Falwell, echoing the religious right line on gay people in the GOP.
THE USUAL SUSPECTS: Believe it or not, there are Western diplomats who don’t like the idea of democracy taking root in Ukraine or of Ukraine joining the European Union. Here’s one former British diplomat in the Independent, replaying the old debate about the Soviet Union, now tinged with even more anti-Americanism:
Imagine an election in Mexico that produces a president favourable to the United States, as elections there have done for 70 years now. But this time international observers, God forbid, detect electoral abuse. Vladimir Putin demands a recount, a rerun. Consider the outcry in the US. Unthinkable? Not really. Has there ever been a really fraud-free election in Mexico? … It is time for Britain and for western Europe to get real. For too long now we have gone along with the idea that spreading democracy on our terms is all good. Where there is a real demand for it, we should do what we can to help; but democracy that grows out of the barrels of Western guns will not endure.
There is realism and there is cynicism. Clive Davis understands the difference.
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