And immediately we get an answer. One is left to wonder what unknown sense is used to `feel’ (_surely_!) that one is not a `leftist,’ but an enemy undercover. _Surely_ the same that allowed other inquisitive minds of less than a century ago to easily tell `Right-trotskist’ from ‘Bukharenets.’ An unsurmountable habit of a class consciousness, as usual coupled with a hue and cry to gag and ban.

Dear nichevo (`Klaatu barada nikto!’ ), studying Nazi racist theories readily reveals that the racism within `White’ as you have durst to put it race is well possible.

DanM, I believe that the first thing one has to do to form an opinion on anything is to try to think rationally. Even though duck and cover epoch conditioned people to see Russia as an unconditional evil, using mythology as a basis for analysis is not going to advance values one is standing up for. It is no good to assume that Russians either somehow mysteriously tricked Georgia to start an offensive in SO right during Olympics, or that they started aggression first to which Georgia responded on the last Thursday without ever mentioning the former. It is no good, because there are much simpler explanations, and ignoring then is defying reason in favor of ideology. It’s equally not good to claim that answer to Russia’s goal in Georgia is given by taking the city of Gori and persisting in that conclusion even after its antecedent was found to be contrafactual.

Abandoning logic is not a hallmark of the Western thought, yet it is understandably human.