Russians,sudden friendship?

[Jon Ford]

I heard to day on the BBC that Putin gave his best speech in the US after 
hios meeting with Bush-- he was much warmer and open, even expressing some 
emotions and respect for some of the people he had hunted back in his KGB 
days. Bush must be giving him acting lessons!
On the other hand, the news report went on to note that the Russians are the 
only country so far to give acknowledgement to the Northern Alliance as the 
"legitimate government of Afghanistan" even though Afghantistan is 
officially speaking a state (or a bunch of starving people) without a 
government. Down, boys! Just because you've been supporting the Northern 
Alliance for many years with weapons and intelligence doesn't give you the 
right to annoint them the "offical government." Sounds like the Russians 
haven't learned very much from their past failures in backing puppet 
governments in Afghanistan.
If anything, this premature move could cause a little rallying around flag 
of the hated Taliban!

Jon


>From: Connie Clark <connie_3c@yahoo.com>
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: RE: why sudden friendship?
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 05:48:26 -0800 (PST)
>
>
>--- Wayne Johnson <cadaobh2@brgnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Surely.  Surely, there is NO relationship of any
> > kind between the Russian
> > President's quick-to-call Bushki actions of 9/11/01
> > and the desire to
> > develop good oil relationships with the US.
>
>good observations Wayne.  Such a nice time they had
>with each other.  Afterall, if we can support the
>reigns of super wealthy Saudi royalty, well, why can't
>we have a former KGB, Russian President for our best
>buddy.
>
>In the mean time, I saw gas for .92 9/10 per gal for
>regular yesterday (at the Super K-Mart).
>
>
>
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