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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (372559)	8/9/2008 5:00:45 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

I just don't see it as being America's problem or in our best interest to be involved. I'm sure you recall my Great-Grandmother grew up in a Greek merchant family who moved to Moldova, nee Bessarabia, to take advantage of the newly "liberated" farmland being offered to investors by the Russian government. It was a good deal. What's a border or a government? One bit of observation she passed on was her sincere conviction that Romanians and Serbs and others in the region were genetically insane from birth, always fighting over something from the past no one could clearly recall. Ottoman Empire, Russian expansionism, blah, blah, blah. She was delighted to move to get away to Paris to go to school at the Sorbonne and finally settle in West Hollywood with her children in a pleasant climate away from people who didn't know how to have a good day. Her husband remained in Moscow and as far as she was concerned he was welcome to it. As she said, "Moscow was freezing and dark in the Winter and hot and dusty each Summer. There's no reason any normal person should ever want to live there." .

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (372559)	8/9/2008 5:55:13 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Hi Haim, When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Russia approximately 200 years ago, he found the country was a bit bigger then he first realized. en.wikipedia.org So what would the USA do if Castro (of Cuba fame) invaded Florida? I see that as the Russian view of when Georgia invaded Abkhazia. I am assuming Florida is still essentially loyal to the Union. There is a photo essay here. It's from the Georgian invasion of 1993. eurasianet.org Nice pic of Stalins dacha !