Mockery

Mr. Medvedev’s claim of a Georgian genocide, after his own government published casualty figures of 200 or so, is deliberately preposterous; he is mocking the very idea of humanitarian intervention [bold mine-DL]. ~The Washington Post

Actually, the war in Kosovo already did that in making a mockery of the idea, which is why Moscow can use the same language and methods to dress up its power projection just as NATO did.  Medvedev has simply applied the same kind of nonsense to another situation.

P.S.  What does NAFTA have to do with any of this?

about the author

Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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