The Steep Decline of Courage in the West
Robert Amsterdam (August 27th, 2008) Writes:
French political philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy has a very passionate article of conclusions about the war in today's Wall Street Journal:
- Western public opinion fell with disconcerting facility for the thesis advanced -- from the very first day -- by the Kremlin's propaganda machine. We know now that the Russian army had been hard at work on its war preparations since before Aug. 8. We know that it massed at the "border" between Georgia and Ossetia a considerable military and paramilitary logistical presence. We know the Russians had methodically repaired the railroad tracks that the troop-transport trains were to take, and we know that at least 150 tanks went through the Roky tunnel separating the two Ossetias the morning of Aug. 8. In other words, no one can ignore the fact that President Saakhashvili only decided to act when he no longer had a choice, and war had already come. ...
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alexander solzhenitsyn, blindness, Europe, Georgia, Roky tunnel, Russia, Russian Army, Saakhashvili, Tbilisi, Wall Street Journal
alexander solzhenitsyn, blindness, Europe, Georgia, Roky tunnel, Russia, Russian Army, Saakhashvili, Tbilisi, Wall Street Journal


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