Online, arguments that a civilized world cannot permit countries simply to carve off bits of each other at will were met with the usual hail of false equivalencies — what about the invasion of Iraq, then? What about the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in Kosovo? What about Israel’s occupation of the West Bank? This same ritual is enacted whenever and wherever a hostile dictatorship embarks upon some lawless escapade. The anti-West left either looks the other way or jumps to its defence. Legions of academics emerge to urge understanding of the other’s perspective — understanding, not with a view to repelling its advance, but to acquiescing in it. And the leaders of the West mostly wring their hands. -Andrew Coyne (Russia enabled by West’s foreign policies of vacillation, uncertainty)
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:02:30 +0000
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