American appeals for politically based solutions seem hypocritical?

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-clarke22sep22.story
COMMENTARY
An Ominous U.S. Model (invites Russia to rely on warfare).
By Jonathan Clarke
Our post-9/11 policies invite Russia and others to rely on warfare.
By Jonathan Clarke
Jonathan Clarke, a scholar at the Cato Institute, is co-author of "America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order" (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

September 22, 2004

Up and down the East Coast diplomatic corridor, heated meetings are taking place to critique what some are describing as Russian President Vladimir V. Putin's "slow-motion putsch" to snuff out Russia's fragile democracy. Both President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell have voiced cautious but unambiguous disapproval. And rightly so.

There is no doubt that Putin's moves represent a disturbing revival of traditional Russian autocratic centralism. It is clearly in the U.S. interest to moderate any acceleration of this trend. Harsh words are unlikely to work. Instead, a moment of U.S. self-reflection may provide guidance about how best to achieve this interest. After all, the developments in Russia are not taking place in a vacuum.

Over the past weeks, the Russian people have been subjected to terrorist assaults and losses on a scale broadly equivalent to 9/11. In critical ways, therefore, the two countries are coping with a parallel challenge. If Russia's leaders looked to the U.S. response to 9/11 as a model, what would they see? Most likely, two core themes.

First, they would note that the American response to 9/11 has been almost exclusively military. Other instruments of American policy — political, economic, social, allies — have fallen by the wayside. All other priorities of government have been subordinated to the "war on terrorism." This approach of total "with us or against us" war derives much of its ideological underpinning from the intensely pessimistic neoconservative worldview based on an absolute division between good and evil. <snip>

[tom_paine]

1. It's insanely hypocritical...Orwellian, ESPECIALLY considering

Comrade Putin is doing to Russia EXACTLY what Bunnypnats* is doing to Amerika.

He is only doing it faster...because he CAN.

Bunnypants* is undoubtedly jealous.