Foreign Correspondence

[CoalTrain]

Map of Afghanistan

I like this one in the small and large mode




Here’s an interesting question, everyone expected
Iraq to heat up as elections grow closer. But have
the terrorist attacks in Russia and the proposed
missile deployments in Russia’s near abroad, etc.
which surely have got both Russia and China’s
attention, contributed in any way to the
increase in violence in Iraq and Afghanistan?
Because if I were Russia, China, Iran or Syria
I would consider Iraq an opportunity in which
to keep Bush busy and thus attempt to thwart
not only his missile deployment plans but
anything associated with his bid for world
domination including the mess building in
Southeast Asia.

I simply have not had much time to keep up
with the many unfolding and escalating events
of the last few weeks. However one of the fact
patterns I was working suggested to me that
the unity of many countries with Moscow before
and during the start of IraqNam had faded
somewhat and they were jockeying for position
with each other. If there is any truth to this
it would suggest to me that they consider Iraq
to be a weight we simply cannot hold much longer
without some dramatic escalation in the number
of troops which will not happen until after
the election. We are in the top of the first
inning and everyone has their eyes on the next
inning. It is gonna be a long and grinding ball
game once things really get going.

I wonder if Moscow would see it to their gain
if the Patriot act was enforced more after the
next election and we took another goose step
away from freedom?