| Re: Whatever Happened To Shock & Awe? |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Aug 12, 2008 17:14
On Aug 10, 12:42Â pm, tg earthlink.net> wrote:> On Aug 10, 1:40Â pm, Bret Cahill aol.com> wrote:
>>> Russia is bombing a U. S. ally so what is Dumbya doing?
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>> The wimp walk?
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>> Bret Cahill
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> Isn't shock and awe what the neocon puppet president of Georgia felt?
> I mean seriously, what sane inhabitant of ex-USSR would have done this
> unless he'd been plied with some good Scotch and cigars by whatever
> dregs of the Rumsfeld defense department landed there when they
> couldn't get a job with McCain?
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> The analogy is too easy---you don't go into the bear's den and try to
> take her cub, particularly if you are the relative size of a small
> dog.
There is an interesting claim in the above. South Ossetia and
Abkhazia consider themselves independent of Georgia (and
Russia, by the way), though this independence has not been
recognized. So South Ossetia does not count as belonging to
Vlad the Impaler's Mother Russia, but rather to Georgia, or
to themselves as independent republics. This is not a case
of Georgia trying to take territory from Russia, but is actually
analogous to Russia's attempt to keep Chechnya under
its control. Vlad the Impaler considered genocide a justified
response to that republic's attempt to secede.
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