This Wanna-Be-Again empire's Achilles heel, though, is demographic. With Russians' current tiny birth rate and short male life expectancy, by mid-century Russia could have under 100 million people, a large minority of them Muslim -- not a good prospect for maintaining even a scaled-back empire, or perhaps even for holding on to Russia proper.
Well, well, well...
Friday, June 23, 2006
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In vodka veritas!
Nothing to worry about:
w's gut says he's ok
Hmmm... I'm rather skeptical of these one-on-one lovefests. But OK, let's see if anything comes out of it -- why be a grouch?
Are some Liberals trying to pass W on the right when it comes to NK? Strange.
Stupid liberals don't understand that NK's nukes are dinky toys compared to AQ's ak47s.
...not to mention those big knives they threaten western civ with. we are all nick bergs!
More on the theme, from UBL's rag:
So another argument was heard last week: that Mr. Bush, having gone into Iraq on bad intelligence about weapons that never existed, could be erring now in the other direction — deliberately whistling past the warheads in Pyongyang, in hopes that the problem will solve itself. In one of the great role-reversals of recent Washington politics, two of President Clinton's top defense officials argued that the only prudent response to North Korea's threats to test its missile would be to warn Kim Jong Il to dismantle it, and blow it up on the launch pad if he refused. In short, launch a pre-emptive strike — taking the most famous page right out of Mr. Bush's own National Security Strategy.
"Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil?" former Defense Secretary William J. Perry and one of his top nuclear aides, Ashton B. Carter, asked in an Op-Ed article in The Washington Post. "We think not."
As the advice sped around Washington, President Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, dismissed it. "What we hope they will do is give it up and not launch," he said. He declined to say what the United States would do if Mr. Kim failed to take his counsel.
Hmmmm....
By the way, playing footsie with the bad guys did not help the Russians. No matter, these poor blokes did not deserve having their heads chopped by the head-hackers. RIP.
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