Monday, August 18, 2008
"... Russia provoked? Wha' d'ya mean provoked? Excuse the no doubt crude analogy, but you lock a goat in a pen with a hungry bear and that goat's gonna get eaten: the fact that at some point prior to being eaten the goat may lunge threateningly at the bear thus provoking an attack that is otherwise inevitable is quite obviously beside the point. Now, you may want to argue that the goat's fate is none of our business or that we shouldn't have put the goat in the pen in the first place but, to step outside this increasingly silly sounding analogy, that would be to argue that having won the cold war we should now concede defeat..."
