Chris Doss quoted Anatol Lieven:
Yet the bitterly anti-Western ideology
These days, that sort of bitter ideology passes for anti-imperialism in some circles. If it had been the Red Army killing Chechen rebels, that would have been fine. But now Putin's Russia has gone over to the dark side, so anyone against Putin is against imperialism. Ditto the broader radical Islamic movement. Ditto Milosevic. Oddly enough, these arguments are made in the name of Marxism, which reminds me of the Randy Newman lines: "If Marx were living today/he'd be rolling around in his grave..."
Doug
