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Russia has assaulted the consensus values of the Western World by invading a sovereign country and occupying parts of it for a whole week
Ummmm....Russia *has* invaded a sovereign country and has been occupying parts of it for a whole week.
They've looted Poti and sunk Georgian ships in the harbour there...part of the country far from any flashpoint.
Today, the surround Gori and continue in provocative actions in Georgia in defiance of a treaty they signed only days ago.
The Russian Defence Minister has declared that the world "can forget about Georgian territorial integrity."
This reflexive, irrational support of Russia just because the Bush administration supports Georgia continues to astonish me and only goes to prove that cognitive dissonance is a problem not only of the Right in America.
