'Anti-imperialism'

Ian Traynor on what leads a certain current of leftist opinion astray:

The common thread linking these westerners' support for a varied cast of villains... is not actually sympathy for the objects of their support.

Rather, it is good old-fashioned European anti-Americanism. Operating on the principle of my enemy's enemy is my friend, it stands to reason that, if the Americans want Slobodan Milosevic or Ratko Mladic in jail, they [Milosevic and Mladic - NG] must be doing something right.

Ditto Lukashenko, following the American victories over the Russians in recent years in helping to unseat entrenched and corrupt regimes in Ukraine, Georgia, and Serbia, to name but three.

Read the rest. (Thanks: L.)