Freedom’s front line.

Let´s not get overly romantic about this. The orange revolution should win, the elections were fraudulent, but the picture in Ukraine is not totally black and white - and the question is not about any kind of universal freedom, the battle of good and evil. The people on the streets in Kiev are fighting for a national and personal freedom: They don´t see themselves as pieces on the game board of a new Cold War. Nor should they be such.

Whining Americans are asking "Why the Europeans support democracy in Ukraine but not in Iraq?" Because a)There´s not bloody war going on in Ukraine, there´s only a fear of a possible civil war b)Ukraine is working state - totally unlike Iraq as it´s now - where parlamentary democracy has functioned - not well, but functioned it has still - for 13 years and c)Most Europeans support democracy in Iraq, but not the formation of an American client state on the ruins of a once sovereign country.