The argument is similar to that about Indonesia and East Timor is it not?
>The West is magnanimously lending billions of dollars to Russia ostensibly
>to help liberal democracy but in fact to help the oligarchs. It is already
>intervening massively in the former Soviet Union. There is no way it cannot
>intervene.
>
>It tacitly supported the suppression of the East Timorese for years. If it
>does not put pressure on Russia now, it is supporting the crushing of the
>Chechens.
>
I think Chris's position is all the evidence we need that Yoshie is right on
the left and Chechnya. "Left" advice merely broadens Western options for
interfering.
Russell