[lbo-talk] lbo-talk] Putin: "We showed weakness, and weak people are beaten..."

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 6 09:44:36 PDT 2004


Peter Lavelle wrote:


> Western media just canít go beyond seeing criminal elements who
>claim to speak for the Chechen people as something akin to the
>Palestinian example.

"Western media" here must exclude the U.S. Palestinians are demonized here, and the Chechens easily assimilated into the reigning Terrorism narrative.

Doug



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