11th
August 2008
I
wonder is there the slimmest of chance to see millions
of exalted young people passionately marching for peace
in Georgia… It shouldn't be too much of an effort. All
they have to do is brush the dust off from the "not in
our name", "no blood for oil", "war is not the answer",
etc placards, paste Vladimir Putin’s and Dmitri
Medvedev’s faces over Bush’s or Blair’s on the "worst
ever", "mass murderer" and "real terrorist" placards and
voila! ready to march for peace. Preferably in
millions, preferably in Moscow, to ram the message
through to Putin and Medvedev.
I am also wondering, will we hear of
passionate peace activists, who are determined to go and
chain themselves to Georgian government buildings and
other such sites to offer human shield against malicious
and deliberate bombing by Russian planes on civilian
targets. Anyone? Also, it would be refreshing to see
similar sense of outrage and hysteria on the part of
western media that we witness when American planes hit a
"wedding party", armed to their teeth, when reporting
bombings of apartment buildings and markets by Russian
air forces in Georgia. I cannot help but notice a
certain lack of urgency in underlining such reports.
Plus, has anyone warned already that the Russian
military invasion of its tiny neighbor is bound to stir
up anti-Russian sentiment and create a groundswell for
Georgians to recruit young people to their cause? When
will the Russians catch their first English citizen who
has grown a beard, converted to Georgian Christianity
and adopted the name Johnadze Smithinashvili?
Ah, who am I kidding? It is one thing to
march against the country that liberated half of Europe
and kept it that way for the following 50 years. It is
quite another to march against a nation that enslaved
half of Europe and kept it under a bloody slavery for 50
years. I can see the morally bankrupt relativist lefty
loonies massing to the streets to protest the overthrow
of a regional warmonger who managed to kill at least
half a million of his own citizens in a few decades. It
takes no courage to stand up against that, only vast
amounts of ignorance and selfadoration. To stand up
against real threats and serious challenges, however –
well, most people pass the chance.
Everyone knew how hollow and hypocritical
were the mass demonstrations for Saddam and peace,
against Bush and war. But I would like to rub it under
their nose anyway, given the chance.
