Thursday, 13 November 2008

The Mainstream Media Are Starting To Get It

Over in The Independent, Mary Dejevsky writes:

"Thank goodness, they might be thinking at the US State Department and the British Foreign Office, for the financial crisis. Were it not for the ever-blacker news about the Western world's economy, another scandal would be vying for the headlines – and one where the blame would be easier to apportion. It concerns our two countries' relations with Russia and the truth about this summer's Georgia-Russia war.

It's now clear that Georgia started the war in South Ossetia. Why did US and British accounts give the impression that Russia was the guilty party, and Georgia a brave little democracy that big bad Russia wanted to snuff out?
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Where do you want us to begin, Mary?

2 comments:

  1. Possibly to cover up the fact that this country last year sold ten times the quantity of arms to Russia as we did to Georgia?

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  2. Jolly good.

    If we must sell arms at all, of course. We shouldn't.

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