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A moral equivalance test and a modern day Guernica

Georgia - A modern day Guernica.

It seems its the fashion of the day to try to tie some sort of moral equivalence to what Russia is doing in Georgia to what the United States and its allies did in Iraq.

This is, of course,a putrid pile of of leftist hogswallow and they know it. If you dont agree or if you feel that there might be something to that argument, then ask yourself or anyone else who will listen "where are the Human Shields? Where is Sean Penn? Where is Medea Benjamin? Where is Katrina VandenHeuvel?" Where are the protests of Russian Embassys world wide? Where are the throngs of peace loving protest crowds around the world?

Well, certainly not in Georgia where they can get hurt or possibly even killed in the process. The American Armed forces have their reputation, the Imperial Russian Army has its well earned reputation. Everyone knows its safe to stand in front of the American Army, everyone also knows the opposite is true when standing in front of the Russian Army.

But if the left is anything, its consistent. It's consistently wrong, consistently insane and consistently on the side of tyranny and this time its no different. Its always quick to condemn the so called "American War Machine", and all too quick to excuse the Imperial Russian Empire as it marches over the lives of free people in an effort to crush their homes, destroy their property and most importantly, terrorize their neighboring countries to do the bidding of the new Czar.

Ask yourself this - If Georgia falls to the Russians, what hope does Ajerbijan have? Uzbekistan? Tajikistan? Ukraine?, Estonia?, Latvia?, Lithuania?, Poland?, Romania?, Hungary?

And what or who is to stop them? Don't the current Imperial Russian arguments for military action in Georgia also work in those places as well? What makes you think that this will go "this far an no further". You can be sure that each of those countries know what language His Imperial Majesty "Czar Putin I" is speaking. Its Russian, spoken with a bohemian German accent. Its the sound made by a jackboot holding a man supine against the ground, by his throat, his words of protest caught under in the desire of an empire to increase its ambitions for what is not theirs. Europeans know the sound of this language all too well, for it has been spoken for years on their continent before the peace that was brought by the Americans.

Now, here in the new century, this language seems to be making a comeback. I cant help but notice that war in Europe has broken out, just as Americans were in the act of leaving it. There might be a connection in there to take note of, if there are any of us left to make the connection after this is all over. History says that despite our hopes, this conflict will get wider and uglier before it is all over. I hope that history is wrong, but I'm a skeptic in that area.

Its interesting to me to note how the safest place for a civilian seems to be either in front of or in the care of the American Armed Services while the most dangerous place in the world for a civilian is to simply live on the border with Russia. Theres a lesson in there somewhere about where the real moral high ground in the world exists.

Posted @ August 14, 2008 11:14 AM | Current Affairs

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