Posted on 10/15/2006 9:40:18 AM PDT by aculeus
"To be honest, I think what I did, in retrospect, was foolish. I was chasing glory. Anna's murder made me realise that, in Moscow, writing about the wrong things can get you shot." "
This fellow knows his Russian History - how very sad.
Don't preach to me...
I am 100% convinced that a lot of Americans and our allies would be alive today, or their deaths not wasted -- had a few of our own "journalists" met an early terminal fate..
I'll name one in particular for you to ponder if their "life and work" was worth the cost..
Walter Cronkite.
I could add more - but most didn't reach the depth that Cronkite did...
Semper Fi
None have been solved.
Sounds like Vlad is going after Clinton's record.
Awww, you beat me to it. Of course the Clintons never had to kill anyone in the media, they do the Clintons bidding.
Putincide?
"" In a statement made on Russian television President Putin’s foreign policy advisor, Mr. Gleb Pavlovski said, referring to Georgian-Russian relationship and President Saakashvili’s policy, that “sometimes difficult problems can be solved with one bullet”."
How about Daniel Ellsberg? Isn't he the patriot that published the Pentagon Papers?
Yes, Putin and his new nationalism are popular in Russia. On that we can agree.
Most probably fake. Gostomysl appears only in the "History" written in XVIII century by a Peter's the Great grandee Vasiliy Tatishchev.
He quotes so called "Ipatievskaya chronicle" but there's no any manuscript of it.
We find Gostomysl in "Annales Fuldenses". [Hannoverae, 1891 p. 35]. He was a king of Western Slavic tribal union Obodrites, they lived in today's Northen Germany, close to Denmark. East-Frankish king Ludwig killed Gostomysl in 844 during a war. The war's reason was that Gostomysl wanted to secede.
The medieval Rus chronicles which quote "The Tale of Bygone Years" (no manuscript of the latter again) say that certain Slavic, Baltic and Finnish tribes offered a Viking Prince Roerik kingship on terms of a treaty what was the beginning of the Kievan Rus's state.
Some historians identify Roeric as Roeric of Jutland, a son of a Danish konung, and known in Western European chronicles.
See # 32 regarding # 17.
Ellsberg was neither a journalist or a patriot...
He was a Government employed Military Analyst, who copied and released to the New York Times - Confidential material. Sound familiar?
His release, strengthened the "cause" of the Leftist's objection to the war that was being WON -- leading to our "cut and run" and abandonment of allies. Sound familiar?
Subsequently many of those South Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian and Ethnic Hill tribes were persecuted, murdered or enslaved by the Communists we were fighting...... Contrary to the "promise" of peace from Fonda and her Marxist husband at the time.. Sound familiar?
Another thing I'll bet never registered in your "education" or "recollection" of events from those times....
The American student protests and marches against the war, ceased as soon as the Draft was eliminated....
It wasn't the war the cowards protested -- it was the possibility that THEY may be drawn in to it...
I guess they didn't mind when others were doing the fighting and dieing. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Ellsberg a patriot? Hell, Ellsberg wouldn't amount to a pimple on a patriot's ass.
Ellsberg was one of those that contributed to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and squandering the patriot dead that had died to secure that victory.
Semper Fi
While every editorial today noted the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists’ startling statistic that 13 journalists have been killed since Putin took office in 2000, 29 reporters were murdered during the Yeltsin administration, and business-related killings were far more common during the 1990s.
Sorry you missed my sarcasm. I agree with your premise that we should be locking up journalist and executing them for treason. Especially during a time of war.
Don't be!
We know where you stand. How could that be a bad thing. Meanwhile, I'm going to get some Irish Whiskey, and a pair of needlenose pliers to extricate the buckshot from my fanny.
It's a shame. Moscow is becoming as hazardous as Arkansas was to those who cross the wrong people.
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