While Russian forces invade Georgia...

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...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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You talk as though it were my business to convert the "supporters of Russia". First, I am not so arrogant; second, if anyone, after several years of Putin government, tens of thousands of civilians dead in Chechenya, relationships with Europe at an all-time low, 150 murdered journalists at home, Litvinenko killed in London in a way that left no doubt as to the origin of the killers, and the hitman who did the actual murder promoted to the Russian Parliament for his trouble - if anyone has been able to contemplate this multiplication of crimes and still be able to be a "supporter of Russia", then the word is not supporter, it is accomplice. And I have no interest in criminals and their accomplices. I write to please myself and the few people who read my work. If you want something else, I dare say you can find enough know-nothings, hypocrites and traitors in any major mass medium. Like the Brutish Broadcasting Creeperation and its accomplices.