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Tune in to NQR now for the South Asia Hour with DCMediagirl and Nail ‘em Up (Open Thread)

By NoQuarterLive on August 8, 2008 at 8:59 PM in NoQuarter Radio, Open Thread

The South Asia Hour is live right now from 10pm to 11pm ET on NQR. The call-in line for questions is (347) 677-0792.

DCMediagirl is a veteran broadcaster who’s been on assignment in Islamabad and produced Urdu news programs. Her co-host, Nail ‘em Up, is “the rudest Pakistani blogger” on the internet. Together they’ll demystify the region — India, Pakistan, Afghanistan — and answer questions about the subcontinent.

Listen to the livestream broadcast right now on NQR. There’s also a chat room open on the main NQR page (look for the green “chat” sign).

(If you miss the show, an audio archive will be available on NQR after the program.)

http://noquarterusa.net/ SusanUnPC

I love this show. I learn so much from these two. And Nail ‘Em Up is a riot.

And thankfully we have no technical problems, unlike last night.
Mr.Murder

Techie probs here on my part, not there on theirs.

Missed the audio, nice to see people in chat though.
Mr.Murder

President Saakashvili visits joint military exercise in Vaziani

July 21 President Saakashvili visited Immediate Response 08 at Vaziani base to see firsthand the training exercises underway involving soldiers from the US, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and the Ukraine. Immediate Response 08 has been planned since 2006 and is training troops in the spirit of the Partnership for Peace.

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link past that ‘cannot be found’ @ usembassy.gov

Joint training is how we will respond to future terror threats. Russia decided to show us who calls the shots in the Caspains. This attack on a country we joint trained alongside is a shot across the bow.
Mr.Murder

Why Georgia?

Could be they host large numbers of Chechen refugees.

IMO Putin suspects this place of being a staging ground, the secession of a provience filled with people asserting Russian citizenship is just giving him a chance to weigh rule over the oil artery to the EU.

Putin’s government made such claims prior:

Moscow says the Chechen guerrillas use remote border areas of Georgia as a staging ground for their fight in the name of ending Moscow’s rule over the north Caucasus region.

Colin Powell was the acting Secretary at the time, Boucher handled the press statement.

This could be Vlad’s way of marking his turf.

It’s all about the oil, but when blood and oil mix it can really ignite.
Zeke

If the Russians are dumb enough to take armor into those hills, and with the availability of stingers up the wazoo to the Georgians and possible Chechen rebels hiding there, then the lessons they thought they learned in Afghanistan were for nothing. Stingers mean no air superiority.
No air superiority means no support for armor which means no support for infantry which means no occupation of territory which means, Damn those Russians are dumb!
I hope they troll here too so they’ll pick up this tidbit.