It also missed an addional nuance: that Russia and Belarus plan to reunite in a Union State. Not that Luka is helping the process...
--- Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> the GUARDIAN article was good, but it missed one
> dimension. The US
> power elite would rather have Belarus as a
> foreign-policy puppet,
> joining the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq, etc.
>
> On 3/22/06, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's a rare sensible piece from yesterday's
> Guardian:
> >
> > Less bizarre than it seems
> >
> > The landslide in Belarus reflects its demonised
> leader's refusal to
> > back market fundamentalism
> > Mark Almond in Minsk
> > Tuesday March 21, 2006
> >
> > Guardian
> > After the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the west
> did not need to look
> > far to find another bogeyman. Alexander Lukashenko
> of Belarus was on
> > hand and facing re-election.
> >
> > Journalists routinely report on Belarus as a
> landlocked Stalinist
> > theme park run by a Hitler-loving tyrant who makes
> his opponents
> > disappear. Condoleezza Rice and her chief
> assistant for democracy
> > promotion, Dan Fried, never tire of urging
> Americans and their Nato
> > allies to sponsor civil-society projects in
> Belarus to foster true
> > democracy there.
> >
> > Our media have a split personality when it comes
> to these two
> > guardians of democracy. On Belarus they are quoted
> like Old Testament
> > prophets, but mention them in connection with Iraq
> and people recall
> > that they were the only US officials with
> President Bush and Tony
> > Blair on January 30 2003 when Bush suggested
> provoking an incident
> > with Iraq to get the war with Saddam going.
>
>
> --
> Jim Devine / "There can be no real individual
> freedom in the presence
> of economic insecurity." -- Chester Bowles
>
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