Wow. Hey, Mike -

“Georgians became too impatient and confrontational with Russia in this situation.”

Back in the 1960′s, in our Georgia, black folks would get just the same way. Usually it was some damn petty thing or another, like wanting to vote. Or ride in the front of a bus. Or be treated like a human being. Crap like that. They were “uppity”, in the slang of the time.

And they, too, got beat on by the state, and by private terrorists enabled by the state. Dogs, firehoses, clubs, shotguns, bombs. And ropes, too. But they didn’t change. They never gave up. And today the state and most citizens look back on that time as a lesson and a stain.

You are a joke, sir. And your country, as well. Not a funny one.

Just what part of “combating crime” is covered by shooting women in their apartments? What does recreating the court of the tsars have to do with improving any Russian’s freedom? He hasn’t improved the economy. Russia doesn’t export anything but vodka, mail order brides, prostitutes, and oil… and the money in oil just recently overshadowed the profitability of the women.

Putin thinks the West won’t shut him down over this particular pissant country – Georgia. But he just had to know for sure, in the worst case situation he could imagine, so he acted now on Bush’s last watch. It’s as clear as a nugget shining in a stream at noon that if BUSH backed down, then he was home free.

But he didn’t. None of us knows what Sarkozy or Merkel said behind closed doors, but Poland signed up for the missile shield two days ago and Turkey and the ‘stans haven’t made much noise one way or another about their relationship with the Soviets I mean the Russians.

200 million dead last century. We have records. We know how it starts. Maybe Putin, and the Russian people, might want to think this through a little bit more.