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The Ukrainian crisis: more than it seems.

Publication: Catholic New Times
Publication Date: 19-DEC-04
Format: Online - approximately 1415 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The comedian Dana Carvey first gained fame on Saturday Night Live in the early 1990s with his devastating impression of George Bush Sr. With the latter's patented use of chopping movements, Carvey would swing his body to the left--his hands apart--and say, "Gooood;'" then he would repeat the...

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...move this time to the right and say, "Baaad."

We would do well to keep this picture in front of us when it comes to understanding recent events in Ukraine.

According to many reports, filtered through tile reflexive historical anti-communism of Western media and the hypocritical noises coining from Washington, one is led to believe that the "commies" are at it again. In high dudgeon, the Bush White House rejected the election, "because it does not meet international standards."

All this from Republicans who gave us the shocking Florida election of 2000 and the still-disputed Ohio election of 2004 which, as in Ukraine, found massive discrepancies between results and exit polls. To simplify matters for us, we have an ideological construct that asks us to believe that the flawed election about to be reprised on Dec. 26 is between "freedom" and "authoritarianism," "democracy" and "dictatorship." Once again we are being invited (Haiti was the last example) to look through the prism of the...

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