This marks the long weekend for me.
I have a wedding to attend in a brown dress dip-dyed neon pink and teetering
on *impossibly high heels.
*The heels took me 40minutes to master, so when I state "impossibly" I'm not joking.
Then off to David's cottage on the lake. A nice swim will be in store!
AND our friend Matt's Birthday as well!
So this weekend, while you are off reading and whimpering about russian school children terrorist seizures etc, please read the following post!
This is just a brief excerpt from my favorite blogger himself:
Matt Good. His blog is always razor sharp.
Yet his Mblog sometimes scares me.
I am gone fishin'!
www.matthewgood.org (Mblog)
Products Of Imperialism
You can fight cancer. But until what causes it is exacted, a cure remains elisuve. And so the fighting continues.
Chechnya was first occupied by Russia in 1859, following a failed attempt in the 1830’s. On both occasions those native to the Caucasus offered fierce resistance.
Following the revolution in 1917, Dagestan, which includes Chechnya, declared its independence and was not occupied again until 1923, when Bolshevik forces entered the region. Soon after, the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed, which would last until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Like other states in the region (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), Chechnya declared its independence after the fall of the Soviet Union, a declaration that Russia refused to acknowledge, a refusal that would, in the mid nineties, lead to a prolonged and confused war in Chechnya. During this period, Chechen extremists began to employ terrorist methods against both Russian military and civilian targets in both Chechnya and Russia itself.
Recently two Russian airliners were blown up while in flight by two passengers carrying explosives. A Moscow metro station was also recently attacked by a woman strapped with high explosives. A group called the Islambouli Brigades claimed responsibility for both on a website, pledging that the attacks were “in support” of Chechen Muslims. Yesterday a school in Ossetia was over-run by militants also believed to be linked to militants acting on behalf of the Chechen cause.
More than sustaining an empire, attempting to control a failing one is equitable to keeping a tiger by the tail.
Terrorism is the poor man’s way of fighting formidable militaries. If one cannot purchase fighter jets and bombers, military vessels, and a whole host of other weapons, then the use of terror becomes one of the few options left. And while terrorist actions are exploited by those who are victimized by them as “cowardly” and “inhumane” attacks by lunatics with no regard for life or the law (which they are), the examination of root causes are always conveniently omitted (which are usually just as cowardly and inhumane).
Terrorism is the tool of the under equipped and the under funded. It has become prevalent because it is an affordable and effective way of combating nations with highly developed militaries and intelligence capabilities. Not ironically, those nations which have imperially governed or involved themselves in the politics of foreign nations for exploitative purposes are the most common terrorist targets.
Thus, what created terrorism?
Religious ideologies?
Political ideologies?
Or imperial ideologies?
song of the day:
BLACK DENIM TROUSERS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTS
-VAUGHN MONROE
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