While Russian forces invade Georgia...

[fpb]

...the silver and bronze medallists of one of the Olympic gun competitions not only shook hands, but hugged and did everything in their power to demonstrate the deepest love for each other. The silver medalist was Russian, the bronze Georgian. The BBC commentators were all over this like white on rice, calling it a wonderful display of the power of sports to bring people together.

I find it revolting.

The proper word for it is collaborationist. It is, traitorous. It is, quisling. Sorry, but if your troops have just invaded my country and killed hundreds if not thousands of my people, I will NOT shake your hand and I will NOT act as your friend. There are too many dead between us. I hope the Georgian woman is chased out of her country by popular rage.

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The special quality of our time is the cauterization of specific moral responses, and the promotion of immorality as real morality. This is most clearly seen in sexual morality, but it is quite as visible in the habit of some of my neocon friends to praise big business in default of any properly good thing to be said about it, and it can be seen just as much in the bizarre promotion of pacifism on behalf of murdering aggressors. While murder is going on, to support any kind of peace is to support the murderers and encourage them to get away with it. I find it very sad that you should be completely deaf to this elementary moral reflex - an obvious case of cauterized morality - and therefore willing to touch the pitch of political murder and its propaganda support.

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I am not a pacifist.

I would gladly fight for my country, and will always admire those who do so, whether the country they fight for is mine or not.
If I *wasn't* prepared to do so, then maybe you could persuade me to hate those who have been so evil as to be born into a country that was at war with mine.

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That you are not a pacifist makes your bewildered and blind attitudes even worse. You are corrupted by the very attitudes you claim to reject. And incidentally, I still haven't heard one real word of apology for arguing as though I should defend a regime I loathe and that corrupted and destroyed my country.