Scared to Death
Mark Steyn managed to scare the crap out of me this morning. The implications are staggering. Excerpt:So the world’s largest country is dying and the only question is how
violent its death throes are. Yesterday’s Russia was characterised by Churchill
as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Today’s has come unwrapped:
it’s a crisis in a disaster inside a catastrophe. Most of the big international
problems operate within certain geographic constraints: Africa has Aids, the
Middle East has Islamists, North Korea has nukes. But Russia’s got the lot: an
African-level Aids crisis and an Islamist separatist movement sitting on top of
the biggest pile of nukes on the planet. Of course, the nuclear materials are
all in ‘secure’ facilities — more secure, one hopes, than the secure public
buildings in Nalchik that the Islamists took over with such ease last week.
As they say, read the whole thing.
