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• Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:08 AM

  Yes, Klytus, I'm coming to the conclusion that it's only you and I can see the funny side of

  a lot of the pompous prattle. The Russians can have this bitter humour because of how they suffered through serfdom, how they produced a mad "holy man" in Rasputin, their experience of famine and war. I'm sick of listening to the BBC and other media outlets over here with its anti-Russian bias in reporting on the Georgian kerfuffle in the Caucasus. Condoleezza Rice has been in Georgia lecturing the Russians about "democracy" and the awfulness of invading a neighbouring country. Strangely enough, it's only that arch-conservative, Pat Buchananan, who's seen this for what it is. JFK brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in the Sixties when the Russians installed missiles in Cuba but when the USA arms and trains the Georgian army, encourages it to join NATO and decides to erect a missile shield in Poland, virtually encircling Russia, oh, that's a different matter altogether.

  American foreign policy is far more important to the world and to America itself than all these flimsy articles on "saddlebags", bags o' money and a thesis (which is probably boring) written many years ago. The European Union is also making "tut-tut" sounds about Russia but it's only all for show. Putin can clip all their wings because it's Russia that has the oil and gas. Life just isn't fair.

  —maureenodonnell Read maureenodonnell's other letters
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