Financial Times-People's wishes can not be traded away
By Carne Ross
Published on FT.com, 5
September 2008
Sir, While
agreeing with his overall thesis on the diminution of US
power post-Bush (who could disagree?), I was appalled by Francis
Fukuyama’s casual suggestion that the US should have traded
its support
for Kosovo's independence for better Russian behaviour over Georgia (“Russia
and a new democratic realism”,
September 2). This assertion is ignorant of Kosovo’s history
but also amoral in its reasoning.
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