“Serious Blunder”
Posted on | August 12, 2008
Whaddya know? When the US condemns Russia’s invasion of Georgia, we get a charge of hypocrisy in return because of guess what invasion and conquest?
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, commenting on the Russia-Georgia conflict, has accused the United States of making a “serious blunder” in pursuing its interest in the Caucasus region.
He also said the US charge that Russia was committing aggression in Georgia was “not just hypocritical but shows a lack of humanity”.
“By declaring the Caucasus, a region that is thousands of miles from the American continent, a sphere of its ‘national interest,’ the United States made a serious blunder,” Gorbachev said in an opinion piece to be published in the Washington Post on Tuesday.
Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, said Russia was not seeking territorial expansion, but it has “legitimate interests” in this region.
When progressives complain about the Bush administration’s Iraq War having squandered America’s moral authority, this is the sort of thing they’re talking about. It’s hard to condemn a war with a straight face when there’s fresh blood on your hands.
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