Russia Plays Tricky Game With U.S. Over Kyrgyzstan Base

Reuters ^ | Wed Feb 4, 2009

[DesertRhino]

I think im for J-V. Don’t see anything wrong with saying if a nation refuses to let citizens emmigrate freely, they don’t get MFN status.

Reagan and Scoop Jackson were solidly for this and i am too. About the only opposition to this is that Jews were the main beneficiaries, and of course, Jew haters dont like anything like that.

Good enough for Reagan, who supported the “refuseniks”, then good enough for me.

[henkster]

“Russia is the source and enabler of islamic jihad the world over.”

Except when it’s tried on their own soil, like Chechnya. Then they try to crush the jihad in their typically brutal and heavy-handed manner.

I call it “NIMBY Jihad.”

[ken in texas]

He’s been out-chessed...

Or out-checkered, out-tiddley-winked, out-marbled, or even out-hopscotched.

No clue whatsoever.

[b4its2late]

He’s been out-chessed..

I'd say he was never in the game.

[Tailgunner Joe]

The Russians have put a "former" Chechen terrorist in charge of Chechnya and incorporated whole units of Chechen "former rebels" into the red army. These Red neo-Soviet jihadist animals were sent into Georgia last August to exterminate Orthodox Christians.

As I said, Russia is the evil behind jihad, everywhere in there world, even in their own backyard. Basayev, the butcher of Beslan, was trained by the FSB and fought alongside the Russian Army in the early nineties in Georgia when the Russian barbarians first invaded and occupied Georgian land. Russia created the Chechen jihadists in the first place and unleashed them upon the Christian world.

[Tailgunner Joe]

When Georgia attacked S. Ossetia where Russian troops were located, and had been since the days of Thomas Jefferson, we worked to humilate them

When the Bolsheviks invaded Georgia in 1918, the Ossetians sided with the Boslheviks against independent Georgia.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Georgia became an independent nation. Russian "peacekeepers" did not occupy South Ossetia again until 1992.

The Ossetians supported the Bolsheviks before and now they are supporting the new Bolsheviks, KGB Putin and his neo-Soviet terrorist state.

[paulycy]

Henceforth, you can be “Barry Hussein BM” (which seems appropriate), and they can be “Koyragyzastan”.

Except for the fact that I don't want to sound like Chrissy Matthews... I'd say:HA!

Clever.

[gandalftb]

This all classic Russian negotiation by media. Un-named "officials" or "generals" running their mouth with some all or nothing, apocalyptic, no prisoner, taunts.

They're testing the new kid on the block that's all.

[tetuhe1898]

Don’t you know that Israel granted Russian citisens visa-free access last year?

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080320/101840804.html

[Ax]

“The Great Game” V.2 is afoot.

[SeeSharp]

Russia has no restrictions on emigration now though.