There's an interesting article in today's Der Speigel that takes another look at what's going on in Georgia. Long story short ... Russia is within it's right to make sure events in their "backyard" drift towards their interests. Here's a snippet:
... even Kennedy drew a distinction between first-class and second-class sovereign states. He assumed that residents of the main house ought to have something to say in the backyard, as in Cuba, for example. Putin shares the same view, in the case of Georgia, for example. In America's case we call such behavior dominant, and in Russia's case aggressive. But we mean the same thing.Here's the link.
... Now US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her president, George W. Bush, say that other laws apply today than in the 20th century. It sounds plausible, but it isn't true, as is clearly evident in the case of Cuba.
America still treats the Caribbean island, with its Stone Age communism, as a public enemy. American citizens can neither visit Cuba, a country with a gross domestic product a fraction the size of the US's, nor can they trade with it. Cuban cigars are considered contraband, and any American who smokes them is regarded as an enemy of state.
- Mark
2 comments:
If McCain wins I hope my friends are correct. But he will go for the big war, that is what Americans want. The big war where we get to pay contractors to replenish our nuclear capabilities.
McCain will be the end of millions of peoples lives. Not ours, but I am an atheist and that is just too much to live with. Christians can say, Oops I am sorry and their God will forgive them. Atheists have to live with the tragedy.
And we have to live with people that hear spirits from the next dimension telling them to kill more people. George Bush is in contact with Jesus, as is the Pope who told his followers that if they support a womans right to choose they will lose their life in the future. A vote for Kerry was a vote for eternal damnation.
Thank you for letting me write this.
My friends are the opposite of what I believe politically, but thank you for letting me write. I also wrote to the London Times and Bakersfield but it was light weight. If McCain wins I hope you are correct. But he will go for the big war, that is what Americans want. The big war where we get to pay contractors to replenish our nuclear capabilities.
McCain will be the end of millions of peoples lives. Not ours, but I am an atheist and that is just too much to live with. Christians can say, Oops I am sorry and their God will forgive them. Atheists have to live with the tragedy.
And we have to live with people that hear spirits from the next dimension telling them to kill more people. George Bush is in contact with Jesus, as is the Pope who told his followers that if they support a womans right to choose they will lose their life in the future. A vote for Kerry was a vote for eternal damnation.
Thank you for letting me write this.
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