> John wrote:
>
> << The other problem is that Russia really isn't part of the Western
> intellectual tradition just yet. Democracy is a rather new-fangled thing
and not totally trusted. As far as treatment of indigenous ethnic minorities
(i.e. Chechens) they are about where we were 100 years ago. >>
>
> So there is a unofficial appartied, minorities are dienfranchised, and
regularly hunted down and lynched by mobs?
>
> << Most of their societal institutions from the federal government, to
the local level, to the markets, to the Courts are corrupt, ineffective, and
are abused for the self-enrichment of the powerful. >>
>
> Sounds familiar. Do they have courts that throw elections?
>
> << The Russians do not have the same vision for the world that we do,
> regularly co-operating with North Korea, Iraq, and Serbia. >>
>
> Ah, but now that we have a Republican back in the White House we can
resume the installation of puppet regimes in countries we desire to control.
With regimes like the ones we had running El Salvidor, Iran, Phillipeans,
and Argentina etc. etc., would we really comand the moral high ground?
>
> Doug
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phillipeans? Is that the country that roots for the Philadelphia Phillies?
Kevin Tarr
Trump high, lead low
