America is for it, so it must be bad.

An interesting round-up of various responses to the democratic protests in the Ukraine in the Washington Post:

But in this highly charged atmosphere, Yanukovych's accusations of U.S. meddling in Ukraine politics, echoed by Putin and the local press, are especially provocative. One Ukrainian weekly, '2000,' alleged that Yushchenko's 'orange revolution' campaign was coordinated from 'NATO's psychological operation centre' in Porto, Portugal. Citing unnamed sources, the story said the operation relied on high sound frequencies and drugs to influence the protesters. Skepticism about Ukraine's so-called Orange Revolution has also been sprouting in the Western European press. In a piece for the Guardian, historian Timothy Garton Ash cited a Times of London report that described the opposition crowds in Kiev as a 'mob.' He noted that a pundit for Berlin's Tagesspiegel compared the opposition's tactics to those of communist mastermind V.I Lenin.

I think, if we had high sound frequencies and drugs to influence protesters things would be going a lot smoother right now in Iraq. Toward the end of the article, the alternative view is expressed.

"Besides Denmark, Great Britain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Norway and the European Union as a body have done so. It's hardly a U.S. plot," the Post said yesterday. "There's good democracy promotion, and there's bad democracy promotion," the paper continued. "A reasonable person could argue, for instance, that the Iraq war represents the latter type. But no person worth listening to could argue that the explosion of Ukrainian democracy has been negative, and no one should believe that the United States, and the West in general, have to apologize for what they've done in Ukraine." "The United States has done its share of nasty things in this world," the editors concluded. "Support for Ukrainian democracy isn't one of them."

I have mentioned before, it takes a very strange view of the world to look at what is going on in the Ukraine with disapproval.