[dighton]

The Russian news agency Interfax reported that Russian Duma MPs believe that the U.S. can not settle its problems with Iran, Iraq and North Korea through slogans.

Earth to MPs: that ain't the plan.

[Lumberjack]

Another minute ticks by on the clock to doomsday.

I know most people here don't realize that there are other countries who could pose a sizable threat not only to our troops, but to life on the planet as we know it, but Russia is in fact one of those countries. And last time I checked, they still had their submarines, ICBM's and other wonderful relics of the Cold War intact and on hand.

This site will no doubt cheer a global thermonuclear war. I don't, and hope cooler heads prevail. This entire "soap opera" of nations pledging this that or the other reads exactly the same for every major buildup just prior to every major war in history.

How so few see this is amazing. The flag can be a powerful blindfold.

[Quix]

JUST CAME BACK FROM A CONFERENCE WITH COLLEAGUES SERVING IN RUSSIA.

They assert emphatically that the view of the Russian military presented in the western press is wholesale false. . . . to wit . . . that

1) The military is much better taken care of and in much better shape than the western press comes close to describing.

2) That morale is much, much better than the western press comes close to describing.

3) That the equipment is much better than the western press comes close to describing.

What do I know. I'm not there. But I really trust my colleagues.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

SAY,didn't they spell that last word wrong?That's not how you spell dumbas*.