This periodically fugacious post should have appeared a week ago, I found it hiding as a "draft" ...Let's hope Cao, the good guy, wins this one ... "a Vietnamese refugee-turned physics major-turned Jesuit-turned philosophy professor, lawyer, and dual-hurricane survivor." [American Spectator]Free speech making a comeback in Canada ... but extensive Cristophobia revealed in the process. [Ezra Lavant]Obama and others have repeatedly claimed the current financial crisis is "the worst since the great depression" but 95% of them are not economists nor do they have any expertise to support the claim; someone who does, says, "Bull puckey." [WaPo; News Busters]I truly hope Joe the Plumber sues the hell out of Ohio and the dimwit who thought she was a real wit! [Yahoo! News]We were told Main Street was the target group, not Wall Street ... so what happened? [Yahoo! News]The spy game (aka - cold war) heats up in Canada. [The Right Perspective]If you fix the data but move the centerline of a normal distribution one standard deviation to the left, can you then say the leftists in that standard deviation are now centrists? Some thinks so! [American Spectator]Ed Driscoll quotes John Agresto: "there's a whole segment of our country we can never reach. These people ... are the people to whom things are owed" [Ed Driscoll; via Maggie's Farm]
Showing posts with label Cold War II. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War II. Show all posts
Thursday, December 04, 2008
POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
Sunday, August 31, 2008
FREEDOM: Love it and defend it ... or this!
If it hadn't been in the WSJ I would have doubted this story ...Police arrested and shot to death Sunday the head of an Internet news service who had been critical of authorities in the volatile Caucasus province of Ingushetia.The story is incomplete in the linked page because it i's a teaser to a WSJ subscription page.
The death of Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the Web site Ingushetiya.ru, is certain to further ratchet up tensions in the region which, along with the neighboring province of Chechnya, has been a haven for militant opponents to Kremlin authority. In recent weeks, the Kremlin has tightened security in Ingushetia, apparently fearing Russia's enemies may stir up trouble there while its troops have been occupied in Georgia.
However, other news services are reporting the same story; being unsuccessful with democracy the Soviets have indeed returned to their old tricks.In Moscow, Investigative Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said in a statement that Yevloyev was detained by police and died in an "incident" while being taken to police headquarters for an interrogation. Markin did not elaborate, saying that a check to clarify the circumstances of Yevloyev's death had begun. The committee is under the Prosecutor General's office.I'm thinking - with recent geopolitical developments in mind, who do I really want to see in the White House next year?
Yevloyev has angered regional authorities with bold criticism of police treatment of civilians in the region. A court in June ordered him to shut his site on charges of spreading "extremist" statements, but it reappeared under a different name. [elpasotimes.com]
Monday, August 25, 2008
GEORGIA: What to do now that we've revealed no trump?
George Handlery's twelve comments in his "the week that was" are right on concerning the West's squeamish reaction to Russia's invasion of its sovereign neighbor Georgia ...3. Discreetly, it is being suggested that counter-measures and reactions to Georgia are to be of a sort that will not anger Russia. Absurdly, this self-created inhibition implies that strong aggressors (real or alleged) should only be criticized with their consent.This is classic championship chess only in the deadly game of geopolitical oneupmanship ... our opponent makes his move and slaps the switch on the game clock, only the West is not aware the clock is ticking. In this case Russia takes our non-response response as weakness and confusion.
Concurrently, this kind of squeamishness teaches the aggressor that he is to claim early, possibly before the fact, the status of the insulted party.
It creates a welcome opportunity to become confused in the case of those who do not like clear-cut cases if these result in tough going. Thereby the claimed victim status becomes protection against having to impose effective sanctions on the impostor.
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5. Reacting to Russia’s handling of Georgia sheds light on another inhibition. Suggestively we are asked, “are we overreacting to the crisis?” The question is made to imply that the dangerous error of exaggeration is being committed.
No, in fact we are systematically under reacting. Here we should realize that it is exactly this manicured response that is the most dangerous one among our alternatives.
How come that the mistake which we love to make is our typical response? The case is similar to the abuse of cold medicine that combats symptoms. We search for palliatives to counter-act an event that is firmly embedded in an unfolding reality.
6. Moscow’s hegemonial action in Georgia sent a message. Indeed, the message was intended and calculated by Moscow. The question is what we will learn from the un-coded smoke signals we have seen rising.
Sadly, that is exactly what it is! The world's bleeding heart do-gooders have defeated us before we can even get our of the gate!11. A crucial detail of the “Georgia business” tends to get lost in the selective reporting of the event.Woe to those whose courage fails them when a clear and present threat is pointed at their hearts!
Not accidentally, this writer is alert to the matter that is easily repressed by most of us. The reason has to do with the conditioning that [normal] backgrounds can give us.
A policy of systematic atrocities against conquered enemy populations is part of the way some countries fight their wars. Russia is one of them. Mass rape, looting, the destruction of property can uproot conquered populations that are located in disputed territory. Well-planned spontaneous indiscriminate violence, if applied with stern vigor, produces high returns. [HT: Pankukas] It might make the victims submissive, demoralized and ultimately acquiescent when the conqueror imposes his system upon them.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
RUSSIA: What I'm learning from all the bad news from the Caucasus!
The NRO Editors on Russia & GeorgiaFirst, I've discovered the War on Terror, the 2008 Presidential election, and the Olympics are not the only news in the world ... apparently the MSM was just waiting for something to divert their attention.
Stories on Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan have dwindled to a trickle in my news feeds.
Second, I've learned that Russia may not be in the driver's seat after all ...Russia is a fundamentally weak power enjoying temporary strength through high oil prices. It has overplayed its hand in Georgia — and is likely to find the results increasingly damaging as time goes by. That should warn it against overplaying its hand geopolitically. And the West should stress that thought.Click on over to NRO to read an interesting list of reasons Russia overplayed its hand. Let's hope so.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
QUESTIONS: A few must be asked and answered?
So, tell me,Where was the intel that Russia was about to invade a sovereign neighbor?
Where were British, NATO, and American spy agencies? (At Muslim sensitivity training seminars in the Barbados I suppose!)
What did China know and when did she know it?
What did A'ma-n-eeda-job know and when did he know it?
Where are the anti-American voices in the UN today? Huh?
Where are all the leftists anti-war protesters now ... has anyone seen Cindy or Murtha?
What are the goals of the reconstituted Soviets? (Clearly the two breakaways were not their strategic objectives?)
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