St. Maarten Private Eye

Chill out Angelina, what exactly are you afraid of? Russians invading the Caribbean? Get real my dear, the only thing you should worry about is if Bush (or McCain) screws up as they usually do and start thinking they can push the Russians and Chavez around. The Russians exercising in the Caribbean is absolutely no different than the US exercising in the Black Sea or Caspian as they frequently do. Maybe SXM should invite the Russians to R & R here, why not? We haven't had any US ships for a long time and we could do with some business.

Your worries could be related to the recent Russian actions in Georgia, last week Colin Powell laid the blame for that firmly on the Georgian President. According to Putin, some of the blame can also be laid at Bush's doorstep, unsurprisingly.

I'll say it again, Bush's policies have been arrogant and aggressive to so many countries that we should be trying to iron out our differences with and influence in a more diplomatic manner instead of threatening, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela. There is no diplomacy with this administration and McCain will give us more of the same. The World cannot afford more.

Putin is of course a heavy handed thug who arranges for journalists to be murdered. But then, Bush kidnaps people and tortures them, denying those persons the right to defend their innocence. I'm not going to fish up all the links to these things, they are out there and common knowledge. The CIA rendition plane landed here twice that we know of, that's much more scary to me than a bunch of ships doing exercises several hundreds of miles away.

I strongly suggest you visit the Agonist.org on a daily basis, you will find intelligent discussions on so many things there. Writers there were predicting the current Financial Meltdown a year ago and they have been on the ball about so many other things too.

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