BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

12/26/2005

Hands Off Belarus! Capitalist Pigs! So Says Vlade

I once studied Russian (the language) at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey California many, many years ago (1967). I took two thirds of the course (quite good actually) and got a B plus I think. My brain is not entirely clear about those many happy hours spent with the small rotund bald professor who kept yelling at me in Russian to "Stop Daydreaming" and get with the rest of the class.

I sincerely tried but was more interested in Gogol and Rasputin than saying: "Look at that magnificent tank formation coming across the Fulda Gap!" Plus that was the Summer of Love in the Haight, and well, you know, after practicing my Russian on unsuspecting merchants on Russian Hill, I, uh, checked it out a bit. And they converted me into an anti-war hippie. They did not have to try very hard. Who likes War, anyhow except very masculine, gladiator type warriors of all sexes.

Anyhow, ever since I've been dogged by my failure to complete the full course and keep running into various Russians when I seek them out. They are always very curious and look at me oddly, as if I were an experiment they were monitoring somehow. This despite the fact that I singlehandedly toppled the Old Communist Soviet Union by helping Japan rearm economically in the 1980s. Boy were the comrades (of all kinds) pissed.

So it was a little premature. I mean it was the Evil Empire and President Reagan and CIA Director Casey told us all: "Go Get 'Em Boys (and a few chicks)". And we did.

Anyway, I believe that Russia has paid its penance for being Evil All Those Years. The graduates of the great schools of Russian crafts have proven their abilities in any number of commercial endeavors. And they help out in Space and Terrorism too!

So, let's give them a break and forestall the overthrow of the government of Belarus for a year or two.

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