By Christopher Hitchens August 22, 2008
WHILE it is almost certainly true that Moscow's action in the Ossetian and (for good measure) the Abkhazian enclave of Georgia has been, in a real sense, revenge for the independence of Kosovo (on February 14, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said publicly that Western recognition of Kosovar independence would be met by intensified Russian support for irredentism in South Ossetia), it is extremely important to bear in mind that this observation does not permit us the moral sloth of allowing any equivalence between the two dramas.
Perhaps one could mention just some of the more salient differences.
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Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and online magazine Slate
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