Ok … Having sounded off on the failure of liberal pundits to express clear outrage at Russia’s incursion into Georgia, it’s time to note some parallel absurdities on the other side. Like John McCain declaring “We are all Georgians” to a room full of Middle Americans who haven’t the slightest clue what he’s talking about, but applaud anyway. Like George Bush, of all people, declaring that “bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century.” And as much as I respect Marko Attila Hoare, whose parsing of the bogus Kosovo-Ossetia parallel I linked to the other day, I’m left aghast by the unhinged tone of this post, which compares Sarkozy to Neville Chamberlain, lustily proclaims the start of Cold War II and proposes all sorts of ways to turn that cold war hot. (Kosovo is not Ossetia, Marko tells us, but Georgia 2008 is Czechoslovakia 1938? And this from someone who urges us to reject false analogies?)
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