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

[Doug Henwood]

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