The western hypocrisy

The western hypocrisy is astounding here. This is a mirror of what happened in Serbia in the late 90s. Kosovo wanted to break off, but America ended up invading Serbia, violating its sovereignty and bombing the living heck out of it. Now the same thing is happening in Georgia but the sides are reversed. There are some key differences though:

-South Ossetia is Pro-Russia, while Kosovo is pro-NATO; Georgia is an American ally, while Serbia is a Russian ally. In other words, sovereignty is only important when it's a "friend" of ours.

-90% of South Ossetians hold Russian citizenship, and 12 Russian peacekeeprs were killed by the initial Georgian attack (during a cease fire mind you) which started this whole mess in the first place. (Russia is required by constitution to defend their citizens.)

-America and the west actually recognized Kosovo, whereas Russia has not recognized the two breakaway republics in Georgia, despite having every possible excuse in the world to do so. They could easily annex both regions if that was their goal.

Do people really have such short memories? One day we say one thing, the next we do the opposite, yet people seem to just nod their heads and say "we're right, we're always right". It's mind boggling. I can't believe our media, I can't believe our politicians, and most of all I can't believe the blatant, inexcusable hypocrisy being displayed by the American government YET AGAIN.

Why is our media not reporting on the atrocities in South Ossetia? The overflowing hospitals in North Ossetia and the 20-30,000 refugees (out of 70,000 total population) fleeing to Russia? There's a humanitarian crisis going on, there is no food, water or medicine in the destroyed capital of South Osseita. Yet all we're reading about in our media is the 10 some odd Georgian citizens who were killed by a Russian bomb that missed its military target.

I'm a Canadian born citizen, and I'm ashamed to be a part of this exclusive group of buddies called "the west".

Source: Stuman