Did I ay “Cuban Missile Crisis’? I must have meant “Cuban Cigar Crisis”! Seriously as handily as you folks throw around names, incidents,conflicts, and attacks on those your speaking with at this table, where we are all guests, I best keep my thoughts to myself, lest I get hit by “friendly-fire”. I used to be a lurker in Mr. Wretchard’s previous home and was drawn towards his brilliance, such that I dared open my big mouth. For those that may have misread my “Cuban Missile Crisis” words, they were selected for their mass media meanings not the backdoor realities. My point was that history is full of little boys who get offended and stumble into power and then create havoc for the less demented to clean up at great expense in blood, cash, and relations. Putin is just such an animal and I believe he has made a move HE will not back down on (read “S. Ossetia, Abkhazia, Georgia, are already mine!”). “I don’t think the US will do anything besides talk or maybe take away our executive washroom keys to a few clubhouses. I’m still hungry and I ain’t through feeding. If you got anything “scary”, bring it on Mr. Chamberlain, but I’m thinking of having a few old friends for dinner, oh yes and if you do find your kahunas, China will say a big thank you for the gift of Taiwan while we dance.” “Warsaw Pact, I like the sound of that, please pass the jelly. Goodnight, signed, Emperor Putin, you may kiss my ring now.”

FreeBirdWil… you boys don’t stay up too late, you may need your energy when the draft resumes, even us retired vets still have to pass BCT.