Stuart Mill, called his conservative party, the Republican Party, "the stupid party." http://www.aljazeera.com/news/newsfull.php?newid=150105
George Bush said earlier this month that "the age of spheres of influence is over". In that case why push that most potent sphere of influence, Nato, to the Russian border? And what of the sphere-of-influence theory that underpinned Bush's neoconservative plan to conquer the Muslim world for democracy? http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/20/nato.usforeignpolicy
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/08/caucuses.html/print.html Russia has claimed control of this area for most of the past two centuries despite the very steep price required for that control. From 1804 to 1813, Russia battled Persia for control over the South Caucasus in a war that ended at Lenkoran
