Though torture, rape, and murder are presumably not routine procedures for occupying forces in MBT
sport shoes, these blind, tornadic raids on civilian homes are. Two hundred raids in eight months: you
do the math. These are literally everyday, humdrum activities for the occupiers. What is the least that
they should expect from a decent person who has seen what Joshua Key has seen? Don’t tell me about the
consequences, professional, legal, social, or otherwise: it’s always easiest to simply persist in
wrongdoing. Just tell me: what is the minimum moral obligation for a person in Key’s position? Is it
not what he chose to do?
Not content with having done much to gin up a disastrous war in the Middle East, Andrew Sullivan joins
the ranks of the New Cold Thingsriors in targeting Vladimir Putin as the neo-Stalin, implying that a
Washington-based critic of Putin was attacked by the KGB even while local police ascribe his mugging to
street thugs. Check out the picture Sullivan uses, which is of a member of Eduard Limonov’s National
Bolshevik Party being carried away by Russian cops. The National Bolshies have an … interesting
political orientation that is reflected in the party flag: a hammer-and-sickle on a red-white-and-black
color scheme that deliberately evokes Nazi symbolism. Here is a super-nationalist grouplet that mixes
Hitler’s National Socialism with Stalin’s brand of Bolshevism to come up with an ideology that
combines racism and anti-Semitism with nostalgia for the Gulag. These are the “dissidents” that they
are supposed to lionize. Sullivan tries to prettify things with a quote from Russian chess champion
Gary Kasparov, but that flag tells the real story.
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