Re: Georgia, Russia - demonstrating democracy ....

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karen Gordon) writes:
> (K): THIS is how a country removes a leader they do not want.  If the
> U.S. had truly wanted a better leader for the Iraqi people, they would
> have been able to convince the Iraqis that there was a better way and
> that Iraqis could make that choice - with the backing of the coountries
> of the United Nations.  The U.S. invaded a country that they had weakened
> through years of sanctions and embargos.
> 
> The Russian people have shown the world that they, the people under a
> government they wanted gone, were the ONLY ones to depose that government.
> No interference from a country that is known for its imperialism under the
> pretext of 'world policeman'.

painting russia as a model democracy?  when the soviet union was
dimantled, there were a few signs that pointed in that direction (the
moscow people preventing a counterrevolution by the commies), but the
outcome was a huge disappointment:  in almost all the countries
emerging from the soviet union small cliques (usually composed of
bigwigs from the communist party together with the already existing
organized crime groups) ended up fighting over the spoils.  neither
the oligarchs nor putin's secret service clique show any sign of being
convinced democrats, and the events in georgia only demonstrate that
democracy is *not* (yet?) working in most of the former soviet union

> ...

hs

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