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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (54837)	9/8/1999 8:14:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

MM -- May I call you MM? We already have a Michael. Would you prefer Mike? Or MichaelMushroom (to go with the Baloney)? To that, I really must add a :-) In any event, speaking of Dagestan, I've been up all night finishing off a piece on just that subject. (I need deadlines -- otherwise I would never finish; but it usually does involve staying up all night to get under the wire!) Just went out to get some milk & a newspaper, and see from a headline on the first page of The Washington Post that Yeltsin has been personally implicated in the Mabetex bribe scandal. Haven't checked the Russian newspapers on the net yet (I do need to get some sleep), but I can guess what they are going to say: "Oo-wee! Now he's really going to bomb the sh*t out of Dagestan -- and Chechnya, too!" As they say, "nothing like a small victorious war to distract attention." Except that it almost always ends ingloriously...like the Russo-Japanese War. I call tell you one thing more: they won't let any foreign journalists in to cover Chechen War II. :0( (Not that most foreign journalists want to go: it's no big deal to risk getting shot, but kidnapping is another kettle of fish altogether.) Guess who's being blamed -- by ALL sides -- for surreptiously stirring up, & funding, all the "trouble" in the North Caucasus? You guessed it! The US! Our "secret services"! Hahahahaha... Our "secret services" to this day don't know diddly about the North Caucasus. At the same time, I wonder what those dorks in State & the Energy Department were thinking when they started squawking about the Russian oil route and making all those noises about the Caspian region being "an area where vital U.S. interests ae involved." Serves them right, for not anticipating how that would play in the local Peorias. Joan