The Human Rights Gap

The Human Rights Gap
I don't know how much my opinion is worth on this war. I'm just a ordinary working man. I draw cartoons and write songs, and I wrote a lot of poems that did well on TV as comedy scripts. I don't know how much of a poet that makes me. And I'm still in Vancouver, far from the front lines of this war, but I need to blog about it anyway.

I saw four German parties forming a political coalition the other day that sparked a certain thought. By the way, did you know they have Christian Democrats in Germany? We need a party like that over here. All we only seem to have are Christian Republicans. Anyway, I got to thinking about how the issue of human rights has played into this war. It's been a higher priority for Democrats than for Republicans in recent years. While I was critical of the invasion of Iraq, back in the 2000's, because of the toll on their civilian population, I nonetheless think it's high time we all got together, across both sides of the political divide, and took responsibility for it. How can we expect the Russians to admit their human rights violations if we don't do the same?

What's happening to Ukraine is clearly wrong. Military aggression is always wrong, no matter who does it. Still, war has a way of strengthening people. Maybe we were getting too soft, too stuck in our cozy little cyber-worlds. We needed a loud bang to snap us out of it, help us open our eyes and see the real world, to remind us how fragile is this world around us that we take for granted, how quickly it can all be turned upside down.

Putin may also see the new NATO presence in the Baltic countries as military aggression, however peaceful, just like Kennedy didn't like those Russian missiles in Cuba, right? But NATO was welcome in the Baltic, while Putin's forces are clearly unwelcome in Ukraine.

With respect to a no-fly zone over Ukraine, I would call the recent rocket attack on targets near Lviv a blunt and bloody demonstration of an effective striking range that is not confined to Ukrainian skies, launched by planes that were 1,500 miles away from the target - or so I heard. With such long-range capability in the hands of an aggressor, even our own distant shores would seem vulnerable.
  
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