The other candidate, Yushchenko, who wants Ukraine's troops out of Iraq, is supposed to be pro-Western and pro-American. A blogger by the name of Daniel Brett says that Yushchenko is pro-European Union and "closer to the Old Europe Rumsfeld detests…. To understand Yushchenko, you have to understand the politics of the EU. The visionary values that drive the EU and its enlargement--the desire to create a new, assertive super-power independent of U.S. influence--are being forged by those Rumsfeld views with contempt. And Yushchenko shares this vision."
The American Enterprise Institute (as in this American Enterprise Mag. article) on December 10 sponsored a symposium on the events in Ukraine titled, "Ukraine's Choice: Europe or Russia?" That may be a more accurate characterization of what's at stake. Notice that it wasn't framed in terms of Europe, Russia or America.
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God help us how the sheeple are so easily fooled.
In other words, the sheeple want an arch enemy, it makes the world easy to understand: here stand the white guys and there the black (clothing): good vs evil. Makes the complicated and scary world much easier to deal with.
In exchange for this simplicity of view, they allow the elites to pull them around by the nose and get them worked up into 1984ism hours of hate. Who do we hate? Whom ever you tell us.
Note the decrease in importance of critical thinking, historical knowledge, geography, economics and social studies in what passes for our skuls. We need producers who know their jobs but don't think outside their brackets. Let the elites think for you on the high ground.