Comments on: Rundle 08: Russia bombs the theme park of American supremacy http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:50:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Perry Gretton http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2540 Perry Gretton Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2540 Excellent analysis, Mr Rundle. If the White House occupants and would-be tenants took the trouble to comprehend that message, they might be less inclined to journey into misguided adventures, while we in turn might not be so tempted to jump on the running board. Excellent analysis, Mr Rundle. If the White House occupants and would-be tenants took the trouble to comprehend that message, they might be less inclined to journey into misguided adventures, while we in turn might not be so tempted to jump on the running board.

]]> By: Perry Gretton http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2541 Perry Gretton Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2541 Ah, JamesK, clearly you have either forgotten or dismiss RealPolitik. Ah, JamesK, clearly you have either forgotten or dismiss RealPolitik.

]]> By: Charles Smith http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2542 Charles Smith Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2542 Guy, this might interest you:<br /><br />"Oddly, when he (Stalin) was there (Chiatura, Georgia, in 1905), the aristocratic manganese-mining tycoons hid and protected him . . . he stayed . . . with . . . Prince Ivan Abashidze . . . (Prince Abashidze was also the great-grandfather of the present President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili.)<br /><br />Montefiore, Simon Sebag, Young Stalin, London, 2007, p.136<br /><br /><br /> Guy, this might interest you:

“Oddly, when he (Stalin) was there (Chiatura, Georgia, in 1905), the aristocratic manganese-mining tycoons hid and protected him … he stayed … with … Prince Ivan Abashidze … (Prince Abashidze was also the great-grandfather of the present President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili.)

Montefiore, Simon Sebag, Young Stalin, London, 2007, p.136

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2543 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2543 Well if 'RealPolitik' is the opposite of the unrealistic politics of Rundle then I am all for it!..... Israel, I'm sure, does RealPolitik supremely well......... and Obama will be no issue for them. Well if ‘RealPolitik’ is the opposite of the unrealistic politics of Rundle then I am all for it!….. Israel, I’m sure, does RealPolitik supremely well……… and Obama will be no issue for them.

]]> By: Dr Harvey M Tarvydas http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2544 Dr Harvey M Tarvydas Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2544 Yep. There has to come a time when being dumb deserves punishment (it can be allowed in private). As you point out just about everyone and everything that should know better seems to be complicit.<br />SMART: Totally missed by everyone at the last (or one before that) annual Presidential address to the nation by Putin “regarding our space program Russia will concentrate on building a space train to the moon” (absolutely no details given) where (don’t tell dopy Bush and his masturbating white house inmates playing ‘what’s that on my nose’ with the CIA chiefs) there is something that that makes the very limited in supply ‘uranium’ look like last century’s dog sh-t. Good bye Russian global warming. <br />DUMB: Bush & his Rice (on leaving that Georgia where she had been instructing its American kindergarten trained President how the great America is managing the play room at the white house) “how dare Russia occupy Georgia” as if the Russians understood that occupying Iraq was a massive and expensive US favour to the Iraqi’s that they will just never be able to repay but that’s okay because in kindergarten you lean that favours are not done because you want something back in return – that’s the American (kindergarten) way.<br /> Yep. There has to come a time when being dumb deserves punishment (it can be allowed in private). As you point out just about everyone and everything that should know better seems to be complicit.
SMART: Totally missed by everyone at the last (or one before that) annual Presidential address to the nation by Putin “regarding our space program Russia will concentrate on building a space train to the moon” (absolutely no details given) where (don’t tell dopy Bush and his masturbating white house inmates playing ‘what’s that on my nose’ with the CIA chiefs) there is something that that makes the very limited in supply ‘uranium’ look like last century’s dog sh-t. Good bye Russian global warming.
DUMB: Bush & his Rice (on leaving that Georgia where she had been instructing its American kindergarten trained President how the great America is managing the play room at the white house) “how dare Russia occupy Georgia” as if the Russians understood that occupying Iraq was a massive and expensive US favour to the Iraqi’s that they will just never be able to repay but that’s okay because in kindergarten you lean that favours are not done because you want something back in return – that’s the American (kindergarten) way.

]]> By: Kevin Charles Herbert http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2545 Kevin Charles Herbert Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2545 Guy Rundle: some of your best writing ever...tell it like it is...<br /><br />James K: Rundle says it all with " The Russians look at the world and see a series of dangerous gambles; the Americans are lined up at the buffet watching the Cirque du Soleil floorshow".<br /><br />So, if appeasing a bully has never worked..on that basis, Israel is in for a hiding when Obama hits the White House....and to think most of the Knesset have been conned by a newcomer... Guy Rundle: some of your best writing ever…tell it like it is…

James K: Rundle says it all with ” The Russians look at the world and see a series of dangerous gambles; the Americans are lined up at the buffet watching the Cirque du Soleil floorshow”.

So, if appeasing a bully has never worked..on that basis, Israel is in for a hiding when Obama hits the White House….and to think most of the Knesset have been conned by a newcomer…

]]> By: JamesK http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/15/rundle-08-russia-bombs-the-theme-park-of-american-supremacy/#comment-2546 JamesK Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2546 Appeasing a bully has never worked. <br /><br />"Trying to join NATO when you lie at the base of Russia is criminally stupid" is Rundle-loony-left rationale to a tee whilst "though any connection between this and the fact that Cindy McCain's right arm is in a sling is surely coincidental" reflect perfectly the maturity of his prejudice. Appeasing a bully has never worked.

“Trying to join NATO when you lie at the base of Russia is criminally stupid” is Rundle-loony-left rationale to a tee whilst “though any connection between this and the fact that Cindy McCain’s right arm is in a sling is surely coincidental” reflect perfectly the maturity of his prejudice.

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