CSP Security Forum | Dec 05, 2007
by Alex Alexiev
As Putin's power grows, Russia's long-term prospects fall. It was perhaps inevitable that Russia's tortuous post-communist experiment in democracy would grind to a halt, but it is more than a bit ironic that it would do so not in a spasm of violence but through a rigged ballot box.
Regardless, Putin's elections have put paid to democracy and authoritarian rule or worse is what the country is facing. And judging by the extremes to which Putin went in suppressing the opposition and manipulating public opinion and the electoral process prior to the polls, it is almost certainly going to be worse. It is worth reminding ourselves of the Kremlin's extreme rhetoric and pre-election shenanigans here, because they are a stark reminder of both Russia's unhappy past and uncertain future and also because they didn't seem to make much sense in an election whose outcome was never in doubt.
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Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Dec. 3, 2007
Just ahead of Sunday's Duma elections, Russian President Vladimir Putin took yet another step towards ending the post-Cold War thaw in Russia's relations with the West by signing a law suspending Russia's participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Starting next week, Russia will halt NATO countries' inspections and verifications of its military sites and will no longer be obligated to limit the number of its conventional weapons deployed west of the Urals. The signal the move sends former Soviet republics and satellites like Ukraine, Georgia, Poland and Rumania is a chilling one.
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by Frank Salvato
The people of the United States, for all practical purposes, like to believe we are fair-minded. We believe that everyone should get a fair shot. Most of us believe that if you work hard you should get ahead. Many of us have even embraced the ever advancing multiculturalism counter-culture, which is completely antithetical to the concept of E Pluribus Unum; “Out of many, one.”
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Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST
According to foreign reports, Israel destroyed a nuclear weapons installation in Syria in September. Never has a larger story been pushed under the rug by so many so quickly. What are we to make of this?
Over the weekend former federal prosecutor and the head of the non-governmental International Intelligence Summit, John Loftus, released a report on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program. His report was based on a private study of captured Iraqi documents. These were the unread Arabic language documents that US forces seized, but had not managed to translate after overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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by R.J. Moeller (Conservative)
A personal letter to the Democratic Congressional leaders who seem to have a problem with being thankful...for anything.
Dear Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid,
First of all, let me say right off the bat that I am a huge fan of you both. I must admit though, last year at this time, I was dismayed and disheartened at the prospects of your Party gaining control of my Congress.
While I should have known better than to worry about your capabilities (or lack thereof), it has been a not-so-pleasant "surprise" to watch each of you run your respective houses of government into the proverbial ground. Therefore, I wanted to begin this friendly letter by thanking you both for exhibiting the lack of courageous leadership that it requires to land your approval ratings in the "teens" (almost exactly half of what President Bush's are).
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