Some common sense on criteria for democracy promotion from Timothy Garton Ash, with this endnote:

Meanwhile, we must keep a basic sense of proportion. In the last week, Austrian doctors have put it beyond reasonable doubt that an attempt was made to poison the Ukrainian opposition candidate, Viktor Yushchenko. Anyone who thinks there is any moral equivalence between funding an exit poll and poisoning a political opponent needs his head examined.

More speculation on the motive in Yushchenko's poisoning from Gail Bell.

Posted by Laura at December 19, 2004 03:37 PM