Kumbaya...
We are the world...
I love you, you love me...
I'd like to teach the world to sing...
Yes, indeed, the Olympics are kicking off again. If it's Tuesday, this must be Belgium.
During the opening ceremonies Beijing's Olympics, NBC had an interesting shot of President Bush leaning back and chatting with Czar Vladimir Putin of Russia who was sitting just behind him and to his right. Do presidents and emperors just chat?
It seemed odd to me that Mr. Putin would be sharing a quiet evening at the Olympiad while his nation's fighter jets were waylaying Georgia, a territory that was formerly a Soviet Socialist Republic. Tanks and MiGs are not intended to win friends but to influence people. And Mr. Putin sips his chai.When we think Georgia, we think peaches, the Braves, and the Masters. When Mr. Putin thinks Georgia, he thinks buffer zone and access to the Middle East. Georgia (not ours) sits just the east of the Black Sea with Russia to the north and Turkey to the south. What else is within 100 miles? Iran. Hmmm...
Georgia, Georgia
No peace, no peace I find
Just this old, sweet song
Keeps Georgia on my mind.Ray Charles
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Is Putin sipping his chai any different than Bush sipping his?? Hmmm.
If we live in a morally neutral world, the answer is no. If we were bombing the evergreens out of Oregon for secessionist leanings (no, Oregon's not threatening to leave the union...though...), the answer is no.
In the moral neutral game of life, there is no difference between what Russia's has done in Georgia and what we have done in Iraq.
But right and wrong are real, despite the produce of Hollywood, the media and our universities. As such, Iraq/Afghanistan and Georgia vastly different.
Right Right. I just was telling Brian about your blog, and as the words, "while his country is at war" slipped out of my mouth, I happend to think, "Hmm, we are at war, too!" I get that it's different, though.
GO TEAM USA!
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