Balarus, Lukashenko In Condi's Sights

Sometimes are better days to be a dictator, others are not. Yesterday was a "not" day for Victor Lukashenko, as Condi fixed her freedom fighter's stare on Lukashenko's Belarus, the last dictatorship in Europe.

Fired up dissident Aleksander Dobrovolskiy, one of seven who met with Condi at this week's NATO confab, said after the meeting (quoted in the LATimes):

"She said the United States and Europe remained committed to helping Belarus become free. We intend to offer an alternative and initiate a mass pressure for that change."

Note who they didn't meet with: France, Germany, Spain. That means that for thousands of freedom-hungrey Belarusians, Condi, Bush and democracy are seen as heroic and inspirational, and Old Eurpopean liberal socialism is just wallpaper.