Tony Karon, why does that name ring a bell, Oh yes, back in July 2001; he wrote a piece in Time, chiding
the US Navy for moving ships away
from the Bahrain port of Manama becaue there was a threat against it
by someone named Osama Bin Laden. Silly us, to be concerned about UBL
back then.
Putin knows about quagmires, he followed Yeltsin back into the classic Russian quagmire of the 18th and 19th century. Chechnya & the Caucasus. In fact, Grozny, the
city obliterated in the first Chechen War was the “Green Zone” of
the late 18th century; the name literally means “Fortress” in Russian. Putin’s little adventures in the near abroad broughtWahhabism to Chechnya and the lost of hundreds of lives at places like the Nord Ost Theatre and Beslan School #4. Which he used as an excuse to abolish all election of regional governors His silovki associates from the security services, have seized the administration of the country; imposing a real police state. Meanwhile he trades men & material for Iran to finish their bomb; which is likely to end up in
Chechen hands. much like the Iraqi
WMD program which followed Soveit lines. Assasinating the elected exile political leader of the Chechens; Zandarbichev is also something that has no U.S. parallel.
The suspicious death of Politskaya, Stairova, and let’s not forget Litvinenko have no Western parallel
The comment about Zuyganov is instructive. Zuyganov now poses as the real alternative, to Putin’s police state’ but that’s because he beat them to it. Much like stalking
horse Zhirinovsky did some years back. They both promised the re-emergence of the military-industrial complex, the return of the nomenklatura as the silovki.
Zuyganov, Putin, Zhirinovsky, six of one; half a dozen of the other.
There is only a matter of tactics,
that separate them. Just like their
ally, Iran’s mullacracy offers Ahmadinejad, Rafsanjani, Larijani
& Ghoribaf; all bureaucrats of the old order with the same priorities.
