Comments on: Iran Worried over Georgian Conflict

By: masumi

masumi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:12:20 +0000

What for bosh I hear here concerning Russia which is an empire of evil? Any unreasonable fears and only. As though Russia to be engaged there is nothing more, except how to suspect whom a misfortune… In our great country some years after disintegration of Soviet Union were the uttermost decline, cities it has concerned to a lesser degree, but it does not change an essence business. Too most occurred and to all former republics. Yes we only also are engaged that we build up the expensive house anew. So it is necessary to protect still neighbours, the humanitarian help to send, from aggression to protect. Those who thinks are mistaken that so another’s territories are interesting to us. Absolutely on the contrary, to us the quite suffice, would leave alone and any fanatics and maniacs did not press on mentality from the White House. I the Ossetin, was born in Uzbekistan, now I live in Russia. And so, it is all to me native, Soviet. . I love the Georgian, it is one of most before nonaggressive nationalities on caucasus is now obviously infected White Home by this aggression. Saakashvili is very unpopular among the Georgian, at me it is a lot of friends in Tbilisi which condemn him. 21 centuries has come, and the world all is at war. And personally my opinion that all this military delirium goes from outside the White House. Also there is there no freedom of the press, one propagation in Mass media. Bringing the resume to the statement, I wish to tell that personally my opinion that is time to the world to leave in general frontiers, on one planet we live, and instead any continuous race for world supremacy. Nonsense, in a word.

By: masumi

masumi — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:08:29 +0000

What for bosh I hear here concerning Russia, которяя is an empire of evil? Any unreasonable fears and only. As though Russia to be engaged there is nothing more, except how to suspect whom a misfortune… In our great country some years after disintegration of Soviet Union were the uttermost decline, cities it has concerned to a lesser degree, but it does not change an essence business. Too most occurred and to all former republics. Yes we only also are engaged that we build up the expensive house anew. So it is necessary to protect still neighbours, the humanitarian help to send, from aggression to protect. Those who thinks are mistaken that so another’s territories are interesting to us. Absolutely on the contrary, to us the quite suffice, would leave alone and any fanatics and maniacs did not press on mentality from the White House. I the Ossetin, was born in Uzbekistan, now I live in Russia. And so, it is all to me native, Soviet. . I love the Georgian, it is one of most before nonaggressive nationalities on caucasus is now obviously infected White Home by this most агрессиией. Saakashvili is very unpopular among the Georgian, at me it is a lot of friends in Tbilisi which condemn him. 21 centuries has come, and the world all is at war. And personally my opinion that all this military delirium goes from outside the White House. Also there is there no freedom of the press, one propagation in Mass media. Bringing the resume to the statement, I wish to tell that personally my opinion that is time to the world to leave in general frontiers, on one planet we live, and instead any continuous race for world supremacy. Nonsense, in a word.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:07:35 +0000

Oil prices will shoot through the roof

Then demand collapses followed by oil collapse.

By: Sandra M

Sandra M — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:28:52 +0000

A terrific idea from Hollis on a related column here on PJM which has now closed comments. The Georgians didn’t do this initially. If they do it now, they will cut off the Russians from resupply, something the Russians are lousy at, and sending further troops and ammo.

Hollis said:
“The road from Russia to South Ossetia is pretty fragile as a line of supply; it goes through the Roki Tunnel, a mountain tunnel at an altitude of 10,000 feet. I have to wonder why the Georgian air force—and it’s a good one by all accounts—didn’t have as its first mission in the war the total zapping of the South Ossetian exit of that tunnel. Or if you don’t trust the flyboys, send in your special forces with a few backpacks full of HE. There are a lot of ways to cripple a tunnel. Hell, do it low-tech: drive a fuel truck in there, with a car following, jackknife the truck halfway through with a remote control or timing fuse—truck driver gets out and strolls to the car, one fast U-turn and you’re out and back in Georgia, just in time to see a ball of flame erupt from the tunnel exit. And rebuilding a tunnel way up in the mountains is not an easy or a fast job. Sure, the Russians could resupply by air, but that’s a much, much tougher job and would at least slow down the inevitable.”

By: Sandra M

Sandra M — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:15:31 +0000

Yesterday, an oped by Max Boot in the LAT urged supplying the Georgians with stinger missiles to bring down aircraft and with javelin missiles to disable all those armored personnel carriers rolling into Georgia. Disable the ones in front and the ones in back and you get chaos and gridlock. Then, shoot from both ends towards the middle.

Stinger missiles were the weapon that basically turned around the war in Afghanistan.

The weapons genius of CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR Mike Vickers is now an Undersecretary of Defense in the Pentagon, and I hope he will be put in charge of arming our New Europe allies, who are real allies, unlike Old Europe which has been content to have us defend them, while carping at us rather than showing any real gratitude.

I turned to C-Span this morning and heard Ralph Peters telling an AEI seminar that it seems Putin has lost 10-12 planes so far and is very pissed off about it. (We lost 0% planes statistically in the 12 years of our overflights over Iraq). Russian pilots don’t get much flight time and hence are missing their targets. One Georgian town turned off its lights at night and the Russian bombs landed in the sea. If the Russian soldiers don’t have night vision goggles, the night will belong to Georgian special forces.

I think we have to seek NATO membership for all the Eastern European nations immediately and provide them with defensive weapons which the Russians will howl about, but how can they oppose DEFENSIVE weapons unless they mean to act aggressively and OFFENSIVELY? What an excuse they’ve given the west to install defensive weapons in the Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, et al.

We need an emergency crash program seeking energy independence so as to starve Putin, Chavez and Adminjihad of oil money they’re putting to dangerous purposes. If we start drilling for oil off our shores and in Alaska, and building refineries (for the first time in 30 years) the price of oil which has been kept high by speculators in oil FUTURES will fall like a stone. Pension funds are investing in oil futures. Everyone is because currently that’s where the profit has been. Pierce that oil bubble and our enemies’ incomes will suffer. Greatly.

By: Edward A.

Edward A. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:05:11 +0000

Never thought I would be so grateful to the French and NATO. They have the ability to work with the Russians and appear to have reached a cease-fire agreement. Seems the U.S. has little influence on Russia today. G.W. Bush has reduced the U.S. importance on the world stage…and do we even have a Secretary of State…or is she shopping again?

By: John Samford

John Samford — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:18:02 +0000

viscious? Do you mean this?:

vi·cious Audio Help /ˈvɪʃəs/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[vish-uhs] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
2. given or readily disposed to evil: a vicious criminal.
3. reprehensible; blameworthy; wrong: a vicious deception.
4. spiteful; malicious: vicious gossip; a vicious attack.
5. unpleasantly severe: a vicious headache.
6. characterized or marred by faults or defects; faulty; unsound: vicious reasoning.
7. savage; ferocious: They all feared his vicious temper.
8. (of an animal) having bad habits or a cruel or fierce disposition: a vicious bull.
9. Archaic. morbid, foul, or noxious.

Or this?
vac·u·ous Audio Help /ˈvækyuəs/ Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation[vak-yoo-uhs] Pronunciation Key – Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.
2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind.
3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book.
4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.
[Origin: 1645–55; < L vacuus empty; see -ous]

—Related forms
vac·u·ous·ly, adverb
vac·u·ous·ness, noun
Or maybe;
vesi·cle (ves′i kəl)

noun

1. a small, membranous cavity, sac, or cyst; specif.,
1. Anat., Med. a small cavity or sac filled with fluid; esp., a small, round elevation of the skin containing a serous fluid; blister
2. Bot. a small, bladderlike sac filled with air or liquid
2. Geol. a small, spherical cavity in volcanic rock, produced by bubbles of air or gas in the molten rock

I find myself somewhat confused. Not an uncommon occurrence, one I have learned to deal with by asking, Just WTF are you talking about?
I was leaning toward 1 or 2 but then I started thinking about bubbles of gas in molten rock, which seemed topical.

By: Sandy Salt

Sandy Salt — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:23:14 +0000

Here, Here, I could not agree more with being a thorn in the Bear’s paws. We need to use those military advisors in Georgia to train insurgents in the ways of the IED and Explosively Formed Penetrators just like Russia did for the Iranian backed Iraqis.

By: Stoli

Stoli — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:28:45 +0000

I’d love to see the Israeli’s take out the Iran nuke plant. It’s their region and their hide. As far as Georgia is concerned, the US needs to hit the Russians in the pocketbook. Cut off any aid and finances to them. Get the EU to play along. Militarily we can’t really do anything directly, but send the Freedom Fighters and Insurgents of Georgia weapons, supplies and knowhow…bog the Ruskies down in a long protracted war like they’ve done to us through surragates in Iran.

By: Hening

Hening — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:12:58 +0000

Two sayings that come to mind:

1) Never trust a Turk (Old Greek proverb)
2) We will bury you (not so old Soviet threat)

Georgia is a symbol of hope for freedom in a very dim part of the world. Russia is still an evil empire, and the world allows their paranoia to excuse their barbarism.