05/09/05

If Bush really wanted to repent for a U.S. policy that essentially created the postwar Soviet empire, he would have commemorated the end of World War II by forthrightly ruing the day we got into it. Instead, the very itinerary of his trip -- his arrival in Moscow bookended by stops in Riga and Tbilisi -- is a provocation designed to underscore Russia's encirclement. Gloating in Riga at the success of U.S.-funded-and-directed color-coded revolutions from Ukraine to Kyrgyzstan, Bush disingenuously declared: 'All the nations that border Russia will benefit from the spread of democratic values, and so will Russia itself. Stable, prosperous democracies are good neighbors, trading in freedom and posing no threat to anyone.' If that's true, then why is Ukraine clamoring to enter NATO -- or, better yet, why is NATO still in existence over a decade after the demise of Communism? If the prospect of NATO troops stationed minutes from Moscow is 'no threat to anyone,' then one has to wonder when Putin is supposed to start worrying. Presumably, when they reach the gates of the Kremlin...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5879

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp