[Erasmus]

Interesting. What is your opinion of the proposal made by Walter Russell Meade for the U.S. to buy Siberia?

Why, does it gots oil?

If it does, maybe there won't be no dam' SNWR to worry 'bout.

[GOPJ]

The KGB and CIA play master level chess while missing the obvious figured out by some angry street Arab: Why use a missile when a taxi cab driver will do?

"The apparent goals of the KGB [under Angleton's "false defector" theory] ... were ... to convince the United States that the Soviet missile builders lagged behind in crucial kinds of technology, and especially missile guidance, while [in fact] the Soviets were surging ahead of the United States and well on their way to building a force of super-accurate, super-powerful missiles that might disarm the Americans in a single surprise attack. Believing that Fedora and Top Hat were false defectors, and that the Russians were really embarked on such a course, the Reagan administration began a huge new arms build-up of its own which soon bankrupted the Soviet Union."