Re: the great game

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxx>]

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From: <jdevine@xxxxxxx>



> the followig may be of interest...
>
> L.A. TIMES/COMMENTARY/November 28, 2001
> Russia Checkmated Its New Best Friend
>
> By ERIC S. MARGOLIS,
>
> The Bush administration does not appear to understand its enormous
blunder and keeps insisting that "the Russians are now our friends."
>
> The president should understand that where geopolitics and oil are
concerned, there are no friends, only competitors and enemies.
>
> Jim Devine

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Well isn't that the real problem; the incessant reproduction of the
paranoid style of international politics. This assures our species and
many others of slow motion armageddon. With all due respect to it's
entanglement with race and class, I dare say this is a big gender
problem.....................

Ian