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Currently listening to

Not that anyone cares, but I would to share with the world what music I am currently listening to from time to time.  Right now, the band/artist of the week is Lucero.  Lucero is gritty, gutsy, rock n’ country punk n’ roll from Tennessee.  I want to thank Mike Gurley for turning me on to them.

America’s New Enemy

This post is not particularly well thought-out (none of my posts are), however, I just needed to comment briefly on the situation in Georgia.  It appears that Vladimir Putin, the real authority in Russia, used a window of opportunity to flex a little Russian muscle.  While the United States is busy on two fronts and the rest of the world is busy staring, jaws agape, at the spectacle of the opening ceremonies in Beijing, Russian tanks and helicopter gunships roared into Georgia, a sovereign nation with a democratically-elected government.  And in reality, the world looked away.

Take heed, readers, this was not a knee-jerk reaction by the newly roused Russian bear, but a well calculated, well organized military operation with a blatant disregard for national boundaries.  For those of you that are students of history, Russia’s actions are eerily reminiscent of 1936, when Hitler marched into the Sudetenland, literally under the eyes of French troops stationed there, while the world watched and did nothing.  Then came, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, well, you know the rest.

Further, by all accounts, this move was not orchestrated to protect ethnic Russians in South Ossetia. Rather, this was a move to punish Georgia for being friendly to the west, especially friendly to the United Sates; for the country’s desire to join NATO and as an example to other like-minded nations in the region, i.e. Ukraine.

What does the forgoing tell the casual observer? It tells him that Russia is still militaristic; it tells him that Russia doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks because action is what matters and the world will not react and  it tells him that Russia is still not done pissing off America.

Don’t look know, but it appears as if America indeed has a new enemy in the East.  Well, not a new enemy, just a revived old one.