I nearly forgot this particular gem from the Washington Times. I don't actually read this paper, but I somehow tripped across it, probably from the Drudge Report. Anyway, it is one of those articles where the irony of the position being argued by the writer somehow seems to escape their notice.
In this particular instance Qaddafi (Gaddafi?), the Brother Leader and Guide of the Revolution in Libya, is criticizing NATO for enlarging to the Russia border. Somehow missing the irony, Qaddafi chooses to base his argument on the notion of non-interference. The fact that many states bordering Russia, such as Estonia, Lavia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine were desperate for NATO membership precisely to avoid Russian interference is somehow forgotten. Frankly, that these countries achieved independence from Russia and had this status guaranteed by NATO is one of the wonderful things to have come out of the fall of Communism.
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