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Drums in the deep

August 26, 2008 - 12:46 am - by Richard Fernandez
fedya
2008-08-26 13:08:06

@eggplant:
taking down Saddam was geopolitically correct

[snark] Oh, so GPC! Teh PC — Politically Correct — crowd is so, er, “20th Century”. And Putie, OMG, he’s SO 19th Century! [/snark]

[not snark] Good one, dude. [/not snark]

It worries me that the Georgians are displaying propaganda posters in English and not Georgian

Hmm, my reaction was quite the reverse. Thinking about your point, however, I’d suggest that chances are:

1) The entire population of Georgia is eagerly learning English as best each one can.

2) They are no dummies; they know how hard it is to get the truth past our MSM Info-gatekeepers, ergo…

3) It tweaks old-fashioned, trendy Liberals who want to preserve “authentic” cultures as un-dead museums which they can then sniff at on tour so as to feel “authentic” themselves; all such tweaking is a very good thing.

4) You would prefer in… Russian? Turkish? Persian? Greek? One suspects those languages were once all the rage, but now are just SO passé in Georgia.

5) Totten is no dummy, his audience reads, ummm, English, you know? Perhaps there are 1,000 plakats in Georgian for each in English but he shows us the ones we can appreciate.

And anyone successfully extending Monty Pithon material in actual wartime deserves a break. I mean, dude, the one with the Russkie holding a Georgian’s chopped off arms (labeled Abkhazia and S.Ossettia) while extending his right hand, saying, “Friends?” — PRICELESS.