how spread is our navy? how spread is our air force? how spread is our munitions manufacturing capacity? how much fighting have the iraq troops been doing lately?

lots of countries have been rotating troops into afghanistan and iraq to learn to fight like, and with, American troops.

if we get into a conventional war with the russians, their army is gone in two weeks. if they launch icbm’s their country is gone in two hours.

we aren’t going to mimic napoleon or hitler, and march into the interior unequipped. once open warfare breaks out, their food runs out, their grid goes down, etc etc etc

in comparison to our capabilities, russia’s armed forces have bones in their noses and spears in their hands.

bush has a special gift of infuriating opponents into irrational action, and it sure looks like he has put a bug up putin’s ass. “i’m your huckelberry”

maybe the russians will start armageddon; short of that they will be squeezed and squeezed and squeezed. they are far less resilent as a society than the west.