What I find simply incomprehensible and flabbergasting on so many levels is that the whole Georgia/South Ossetia event has come and gone, all without Russia doing anything whatsoever to the pipeline, which was the real reason Russian started military action. How can this be? It make no sense. Has the world gone mad?
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Dwayne Monroe <dwayne.monroe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bush's talk about souls told one half of the
> contradictorily
> two-sided, post USSR collapse Russia fable we like to hear
> while
> snugly sleeping in our Western civ jammies: the docile
> 'friend' who's
> down for the count (aka, my new beatch -- can I hitch a
> ride, new
> beatch, to the ISS? MY shuttles are, um, in the shop.).
>
> In the fullness of time, a few of the usual geopolitical
> things
> happened (for ex. oil went totally crazy bringing in oceans
> of fuck
> you cash, Saakashvili showed his ass and learned how to cry
> on camera,
> etc) and like a frat boy reaching for a beer we lurched
> right on back
> towards the bedtime story's 'oh my god! new cold
> war!' side.
>