Fighting On

The loser in Ukraine's controversial election, Yanukovich, has vowed to keep fighting against the widely disputed results and the appointment of his opponent, Viktor Yushchenko, as president.

Yanukovich acknowledges he has no hope of success in overturning the election, but has vowed to exhaust every opportunity to fight it.

John Kerry, on the other hand, despite losing in another widely disputed election, conceeded the day after the election. I'm not sure that many people dispute that Yushchenko was the clear victor in the second attempt at the Ukraine election, but there are many in the US who still strongly believe that there was widespread voter and election fraud during our election. Kerry had even more reason to keep fighting than does Yanukovich, and yet he rolled over in the name of keeping the peace.

As much as we want peace, I think most of us want an actual democracy more. If we had that, then peace would follow.