Russian Invasion of Georgia Tests Decadent NATO
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
All the glorious rhetoric about the achievements of the socialist revolution won’t put a Russian can opener on the shelves of Wal-Mart. Any hopes the former core of the Soviet Union and one time beacon of the world wide communist revolution would join the world economy with the reforms of Gorbachev and Yelstin have been dashed by the regressive rule of Vladimir Putin. For all practical purposes Russia is a resource rich third world country with nuclear weapons intent on reviving it’s expansionist aspirations using it’s energy resources to subdue Europe and expand it’s control of those resources by reasserting political control of any former republic that could supply energy to the West on it’s own. (more…)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to have stepped off a cliff with her timing for a House vote on a resolution declaring the World War I era killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks an act of genocide. There is no doubt any act of genocide should be recognized and condemmed. However, the timing of her actions can only be explained by the congressional leaderships transparent attempts to embarrass the Bush Administration at any cost.