This Philadelphia Inquirer online story tells us here that Mahmoud AhMADinejad, attending the SCO summit for the second straight year with leaders of Russia and China, criticized Bushco’s plans for missile defense in Europe (the whole thing is a costly Trojan Repug horse that has never amounted to anything except a bigger payday for Repug-simpatico defense contractors), and our buddy Vlad Putin chimed in also, saying that "any attempts to solve global and regional problems unilaterally are hopeless."
Also, this story tells us that Chinese President Hu Jintao flew from Kyrgyzstan to Chelyabinsk in Russia to “observe a joint anti-terrorism drill” staged by the six member states of the SCO (China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan).
And in case you were wondering (I was)…
"(The drill) does not concern the interest of any third party nor makes threat to any country," (Liang Guanglie, chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army) said.Assuming that’s true, will that continue to be the case if Bushco proceeds with its dunderheaded missile defense scheme in Europe (which would also give Iran an excuse to joining a more militarized SCO, by the way)?
And in a completely different vein, I should note that the two once-married actors in the wretched movie for which I titled this post recently celebrated birthdays (actually, Penn's is today - have a good one). That's my "celebrity fluff" for today.
Update: Anyone else out there think Vlad is sending us a message with this?
2 comments:
Here's a crazy idea: what if we did attack Iran unilaterally, and the rest of the world just said, "we're sick of your shit", and declared sanctions against us. No, the U.N. couldnt get it done, but a coalition of nations could be just as damaging, especially if those nations are also heavy credit holders.
We may be closer to that day than anyone realizes - if China decides to liquidate its U.S. holdings and send the dollar crashing down even further...well, let's just say a whole lot of chickens are going to come home to roost and shit all over us, so to speak.
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