Tom Palmer has several posts on this (see here, here, and here). Thanks to Jacob Levy for the pointers.
Incidentally, I’m not opposed to helping foreign bad guys on occasion — consider helping Stalin against Hitler, or helping dictators against Communists. (Sometimes this may have been mistaken, but often it was not; the South Koreans are, I suspect, much better off because we supported their leaders against the North Koreans, even though for decades South Korea was indeed ruled dictatorially.) But that you sometimes have to choose a lesser evil against a greater evil is no excuse for choosing the greater evil against the lesser. I am not an expert on Eastern Europe, but from my lay perspective, Yushchenko et al. are surely better than their rivals; and it’s a shame that some Americans are backing those rivals.
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