Gall

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries.
The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents.
By the fifth day, we were aware of only one earth
--Prince Sultan Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud,
on his Space Shuttle Discovery flight

Have I been blind?
Have I been lost inside myself and my own mind?
Hypnotized, mesmerized, by what my eyes have seen?
--Carnival, Natalie Merchant
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All of the American Gaul is divided into three parts:

1. George Bush
2. Dick Cheney
3. Condoleeza Rice

All three bear responsibility for the U.S.'s invasion and destruction of a nation a half a world away from U.S. shores under the fictional rubric, "preemptive invasion." Now the Russians are fighting in their own backyard in areas of historic interest and influence, for understandable goals, but Cheney-via-Bush-via-Rice are demanding and end to the fighting (Moscow Agrees to Stick with Truce.)

This disingenuously issued demand comes as the U.S. continues its open-ended and aggressive phony "long war," the updated, M. C. Hammerized version of the Phony War on Terror (PWOT ©), i.e., "U Can't Touch This."

Here's an idea: Why not link Russian cessation of hostilities in and around Georgia to a similar cessation by troops in Iraq and Afghanistan? A goodwill gesture recognizing that what's good for the Bear is good for the Eagle. If they can't invade, we can't either.

It is pure gall for Cheney/Bush/Rice to demand Russia's cease-fire. What will they do when Russia tells them to pound salt (SALT)? Is the U.S. willing to actually fight for Georgia?

Unmitigated gall.