"Dnt-dnt-dnt-DAAAAA!"
Posted on 07/10/2008 10:20:14 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev today called on U.S. presidential candidates to develop alternatives to the use of military power, decrying what he called "increasingly visible signs of the militarization of politics and thinking in the modern world ... even though the military route again and again leads to a dead-end."
Writing in the the Russian government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta, Gorbachev said the Bush administration has shown a tendency to "seek to address these problems primarily through threats and pressure. Will the candidates develop an alternative approach to these most crucial problems? This is now the main question."
RIA Novosti, the Russion Information service, carried an account of Gorbachev's article in English.
He blamed U.S. military spending for the downturn in the U.S. economy and said neither Sen. Barack Obama or John McCain has addressed the issue.
"The subject of military spending has literally been shrouded in a curtain of silence," he said. "This taboo must be lifted."
The U.S. accounts for 50 percent of the world's output of arms and military equipment, Gorbachev noted, adding: "It runs over 700 military bases across the world and plans to build more as if the Cold War were not a thing of the past, and the country were surrounded by enemies."
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Go straight to Hell, Gorby.
Who cares what he has to say anymore.
Stick to selling pizzas, Gorbachev. (Reference to Superbowl commercial.)
“The subject of military spending has literally been shrouded in a curtain of silence,” he said. “This taboo must be lifted.”
Did Gorby ever publicize the military expenditures under the communists when he was in charge? What’s with this taboo military spending nonsense? How much did the Soviets spend in Afghanistan before they withdrew? We wants answers, Gorby! Lift the taboo about Soviet era secrets!
The subject of military spending has literally been shrouded in a curtain of silence,” he said. “This taboo must be lifted.”
Did Gorby ever publicize the military expenditures under the communists when he was in charge? What’s with this taboo military spending nonsense? How much did the Soviets spend in Afghanistan before they withdrew? We wants answers, Gorby! Lift the taboo about Soviet era secrets!
“seek to address these problems primarily through threats and pressure”
Poland, Check’s, the Baltic’s, Georgia and other eastern european states may hurt themselves laughing.
"Dnt-dnt-dnt-DAAAAA!"
Whose side you on Gorby?
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