Low Hanging Fruit

Desultory Eclecticism took a field trip to Columbia University this past weekend for a Svetozar Stojanovic lecture.  The Serbian-American intellectual focused on the role of U.S. media in framing international issues, but Kosovo and South Ossetia naturally came up.  Stojanovic, a self-described "yugoslav," did not and does not oppose Kosovo's independence; however, in his concern on where the precedent may lead, he led me to today's blogpost:

"American support for Kosovar independence within the highest circles of the U.S. foreign policy establishment was nearly unanimous.  Yet when Russia intervened to secure South Ossetia's independence from Georgia a year later, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Condoleezza Rice were both vocal opponents of Russian actions, Rice comparing it to Hitler's annexation of the Sudatenland, and Brzezinski likening it to Stalin's invasion of Finland..."


I'm getting nit-picky here, but a Soviet-specializing, Russian-speaking, former National Security Advising Secretary of State couldn't do better on this than Godwin's law?