Reappraising the Reappraisal

I gave the Guardian a hard time the other day for a nut-job piece they published on the situation in Ukraine. It seems only fair that I mention the much more sane piece they published today. Bitter lemons: Six questions to the critics of Ukraine's orange revolution

Behind all these contorted reservations, we hear an inner voice which says, in effect, "Why won't all these bloody, semi-barbarian, east Europeans leave us alone, to go on living happily ever after in our right, tight, little west European (or merely British) paradise?"

Ultimately, the question of what happens to the Ukrainian people must be answered by the Ukrainians. All the U.S. or western Europe can do is lend moral support. Which side they choose to lend moral support is, well, instructive.