[Marxism] On the brink of Armageddon

[S. Artesian]

Man do I hope you're wrong, that the US will provide transport for the 
Georgia troops in Iraq, and fear you're right.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com>
To: <sartesian at earthlink.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 3:53 PM
Subject: [Marxism] On the brink of Armageddon


> Forget about Cindy Sheehan's campaign, or the price of gas. You may
> not live long enough to fill up your tank again.
>
> The United States is planning a deliberate and outrageous
> provocation against Russia that within hours --perhaps even minutes--  
> might
> place what are still the world's two nuclear superpowers at war with each
> other. A hot, shooting war.
>
> And maybe you think George Bush will have the wisdom and humanity of
> Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev who accepted what were in truth unjust and
> humiliating conditions to prevent the United States from launching an
> invasion of Cuba that would surely have led to a nuclear holocaust.
>
> I don't.
>
> This is from the New York Times:
>
> "Pentagon officials said late Friday that the Georgian government
> had officially requested assistance in airlifting home the approximately
> 2,000 Georgian troops now in Iraq. The request was under review, and
> standard procedures would indicate that the United States Government would
> honor the request, officials said."
>
> Troops in transport to battle are a legitimate military target.
> Georgia says Russia has been interdicting Georgian transportation 
> facilities
> with air strikes, as well as troop concentrations, which are certainly
> logical and legitimate targets for the Russians. But more to the point,
> transporting Georgian troops to battle is to join the war. It is an act of
> war, and a cassus belli. If the Russians do what they are legitimately
> entitled to do under the rules of war and blow the American troop 
> transport
> flights out of the sky, what then? Worse if the flights are accompanied by
> fighter escort, and the Russians engage those also.
>
> The Pentagon's comment, as reported by the New York Times, is
> completely disingenuous. "Standard procedures" are NOT that the US 
> military
> transport one side's troops to battle in a war in which the United States
> isn't engaged. This is a provocation, a conscious and monstrously
> irresponsible provocation.
>
> And after the troops, what else? Their weapons, trucks, tanks and
> artillery? And if for this part of the Georgian forces, why not for ALL of
> them? Russia is going to draw the line SOMEWHERE, you can be sure of that,
> and when it does, we may suddenly find our clocks being reset to October,
> 1962.
>
> Or there may be no clocks to reset at all.
>
> Joaquin
>
>
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