They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you. Bush - Joint News Conference with Blair - 28 July '06

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Comrade....Wolf

daralhayat: Russia is not Estonia, Poland, Spain, or even France or China. It is true that its prestige during the prime time of the Soviets has now subsided, broken up and threatened with extinction by the coup de grace in the face of the American globalization invasion.

However the Russian President does not wish to witness Russia being snapped up, whether in installments, or by succumbing to the White House blackmail.

This is exactly what was meant by President Vladimir Putin, who waited too long for American promises of supporting 'a democratic paradise' built on the ruins of the Iron Curtain. The US did nothing but complete the Atlantic invasion of Central Asia. It was assured by the Russians' inaction opposite the temptations of the free markets, the spread of corruption started to eat into the remains of an independent decision of a superpower of the past.

The comrade has now become a wolf. Putin has a strong desire to take revenge on the fierce American campaign against his democracy and reforms, which took him by surprise while the Kremlin was haggling over the Iranian nuclear file to sell the Americans a diplomatic hard-line position toward Tehran in the hope that Washington would accept a political exit from the crisis.

He was overtaken by the American 'wolf' that accepts no less than full Russian submission to the will of the White House, and the neoconservatives' plans to repeat the Iraqi scenario with the Khamenei-Nejad republic. Read more