During the U.S. attack on Iraq most news media coverage was blocked by the Bush Administration. A friend of mine was living in Spain at the time and reported the daily carnage that showed on Spanish T.V. It turned out the U.S. “smart” bombs weren’t so smart as hospitals, religious sites, schools, apartment buildings, municipal centers and residential neighborhoods were indiscriminately destroyed. All this destruction and loss of life was based on a lie, of a twisted son’s desire to win his father’s respect on the international stage.
After the Wall came down in 1989 and Russia was reduced by two thirds of the former Soviet land mass, NATO moved its missile installments closer to the Russian heartland. Why did NATO feel compelled to add insult-to-injury, to shake salt onto the wound of a severed empire, however ill founded?
If Putin is a war criminal what does that make young Bush? At least Putin and the Ukraine share a related history, certain cultural commonalities, a verbal understanding and a connected land mass. And they both boast a better borscht. If only a cook-off could end the fighting and settle the differences!
Brad Brigham
Colrain