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Russia-Georgia explained

Dr. Robert Johnston, a former state legisator and state Public Service Commission member, will lead a discussion on Russia and Georgia Monday evening at Lily's Dim Sum. Johnston worked as a consultant to the Georgia government for two years in the 1990s.

‘Russia and Georgia – Background and Foreground’: A discussion by Dr. Robert Johnston. .Dr. Johnston lived and worked in Georgia in ‘95-96 as a consultant to the Georgian government, courtesy of USAID. He worked with and socialized with a young parliamentarian Mikheil Saakashvili,  now President of Georgia. He visited Gori and the Russian/Georgian border just east of S. Ossetia.

 Johnston was last in Georgia in Oct ‘07. He has a friend in Georgia with close ties to the American Embassy, who has shared some insights by email.

  Johnston will attempt to tie Georgia/Russia to: Israel/ Palestine, US/Iraq/ Afganistan/Pakistan, Germany [both Nazi and modern] , Poland, Ukraine and Armenia,New Mexico and Montana, the Balkans, Jason and the Argonauts, Prometheus, 9-11 and Petrodollars, Korea, Cuba, Chechnya, tripwires, proxies,  and buffer states. There will be time for questions.

Monday 25 Aug 6.30 or 7 pm/ Lily’s Dim Sum Restaurant/ Rodney Parham.[private dining room]

6.30 to order food/ 7 pm discussion begins over dinner, appetizers, drinks, etc.

You must call or email Dim Sum to reserve if you wish to eat

Posted by Max Brantley on August 19, 2008 08:10 AM |

Comments

Guess when Putin looked into Monkeyboy's eyes he saw the same sniveling, cowardly (AWOL) fool that sane folk see. Then he waited until President Shit for Brains was too busy playing at the Olympics to notice he was about to be royally screwed.

Even I can figure out Russia ain't leaving Georgia anytime soon. Took me awhile, but after a week or two of waking up to media announcements that Russia was withdrawing and then going to bed with the same media telling me that Russian troops were still there...EVEN I figured out they were yanking our chains. Play on, vacation on, Monkeyboy...you have proven that ANYONE can be President and that you can be president without ever working or coming off vacation.

Monkeyboy is the perfect Republican President.

Posted by: zelda [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2008 09:11 AM

This Georgia-Russia stuff was sure hard to get a handle on....and I'm still not sure I understand it correctly....but lordy I've tried. First off this isn't a fight between Shirley Temple and Miley Ray Cyrus. Finding the good guy is impossible. As I see it, it's the same deal as Israel vs Palestine and the neo-cons pick terrorist Georgia over terrorist Russia. That fact alone makes me want to wear a Team Russia T-shirt for the first time in my life. If neo-cons are for it, you're best move is to be against it.

Herbert Hoover Bush loves to FK'ing with things. When you don't have the brain power or the focus to understand, so often you just FK with it. Our Bushie government wants Georgia to like us better than Russia. Bushies want to piss on Putin just to show him he can. Bush looked into Putin's eyes and saw all the things he'll never be, a man.....a bad man, but a man none the less. Plus Georgia has all those big oil pipelines going to the sea. If we can make Georgia our little butt-buddy...we can really FK with Russia.

So.....just another dick length contest brought to you by the same people who brought us the Iraq and Afghanistan wars....they continue to lose. And don't forget Katrina! Hard to call Russia a crap hound when our government is acting far worse. Oh, and let Russia install a missile defense system in Canada pointed at us and see how we like it. Our government is rotten.

Posted by: Deathbyinches [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2008 10:29 AM

There's a good chance it's all about controlling the flow of natural gas and oil to Europe, and particularly the Baku-Ceyhan pipeline that runs across Georgia.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,572053,00.html

Posted by: senor square [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2008 11:57 AM

Leave Jason and the Argonauts alone! /s

Posted by: Eureka Springs, AR [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 19, 2008 12:26 PM

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