Viking compadre Downtown Dave has posted an interesting assessment of the conflict between Georgia and Russia, it’s people’s histories and how this all may be at the orchestral mitt of that old cum sucker Karl Rove:

“At any rate, with so much of TurdBlossom’s sausagy fingers stirring this incredibly dangerous pot, and McCain’s unbelievable bellicosity running amok, the media have been predictably been floating the notion that all of this killing going on down in the Caucasus is somehow good for McCain. The old cold warrior appears to be on the warpath again, dying to re-fight the battles of the past. I think the jury is still terrifically “out” as to whether all of this is going to be good for RepubliCons or a disaster. But what’s clear to me is that once again, the neocons are trying to manipulate international crises as an electoral strategy designed to win over their rabid, war-loving base, whom they’re sure to keep absolutely paralyzed with fear, to such a point that they don’t realize how the Corporate Machine is fucking them over every single day of their god-damned lives.”

Read the whole post here

I think this safely falls under the “interesting times” arena…

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1670