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2007-01-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian and Syrian Papers on Renewed Superpower Role for Russia to Counter U.S. in ME

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-12 11:57|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yea... good luck with that. Right now the Russians couldn't enforce snow removal in Siberia.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-12 12:22|| 2007-01-12 12:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Suuuuure they will.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-01-12 12:23|| 2007-01-12 12:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Canada's former Liberal foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy was pining for the good ol' days of the Soviet Union balancing the pernicious force of the United States.

In related news: Lloyd Axworthy still has not been tried for sedition.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-12 12:43|| 2007-01-12 12:43|| Front Page Top

#4 The paper speculated that Russia's close friendship with Syria...

Something else the really grinds my gears: "Russia" and "Syria" are not "close friends"; they are nation-states. I fucking hate this baby-think approach to the world. I do not just mean the whole "states don't have allies they have interests" schtick, I mean countries are a different category of abstraction than individual people. This sort of sloppiness is directly implicit in slippery equivocations such as Hussein being the former "leader" or "president" of Iraq as if these words meant the same thing as being the "leader" of a band or the elected "president" of France (yes, even France).

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-12 12:47|| 2007-01-12 12:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Putin is a crook, but I'm surprised how badly we've mishandled affairs with Russia considering Condi Rice was an expert on the Soviets.

It doesn't take a genious to figure out that taking out the Taliban in weeks when the Russians failed in a decade is gonna hurt their pride. Then setting up bases in Central Asia is piling on. Then supporting the guy in Ukraine. All the right moves but mishandled in the way we implemented them.

We should have been talking up everything as if they were part of it in some way. Talk about how only assistance between Great Powers and previous foes allowed us to do this, and that. Allow them to save face and I think we could have worked with Putin.

Of course Bush Sr and/or Clinton should have done everything possible to buy up every Russian nuke to inject cash into Russia when they needed it while getting the freaking deadly toys out of their hands.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-01-12 15:23|| 2007-01-12 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe they have been reading Mark Steyn and are waiting until Russia is a Muslim majority nation. The only problem with that is that after the Muslims take over, Russia will become a third-rate third world shithole just like most of the Muslim world now.

Posted by RWV 2007-01-12 15:31|| 2007-01-12 15:31|| Front Page Top

#7 #5 Dubya did his best to do that, whereupon the Russians responded by arming the Rogues and obtructing andor criticizing America at every turn. COMMIE SUPPORT FOR RADICAL TERROR > they may want to save the world from Hyper-power America, but can they save the world from each other iff and when Amer indeed goes down to the anti-US, OWG, Socialist WOrld Order count??? THe Muslim Iranian Enemy of israel is not a friend to Muslim Lebanon-Syria, etc.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-12 20:04|| 2007-01-12 20:04|| Front Page Top

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