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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (3717)	1/25/2003 5:01:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Hi Jim, Re: The outlines of the Great Game are apparent. I think you may have misunderstood my point. The Great Game was the imperial conflict between the British and the Russians in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries throughout the region of Southwest and Central Asia. Each empire was expanding and the "Game" then as now was to see who could use more intrigue and force to access regional resources. This balance became totally unhinged in the cataclysmic shrinkage of the Russian empire a dozen years ago. We are now in the process of rejiggering the map of Central Asia to accomodate the new American hegemon of the 'Stans. The Iraq occupation represents another piece of the Grand Chessboard that the U.S. government hopes to dominate and exploit fully. We won't rest on our laurels in Baghdad for long. We'll soon enough be menacing Tehran, Turkmenbashi and the Caspian satrapies. Conquest and military adventurism is the vision of the Boy King. And he's got the military might to pull off such a wickedly naked aggression.