 merrie says: Casino Royale demonstrates that anyone vaguely Slavic makes the best bad guy. But for a true tribute to the Cold War genre, nothing tops Mike Myers towering body of work: Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery, Austin Powers - The Spy Who Shagged Me, and Goldmember. All of it of course stands in the shadow of the greatest Cold War flick of all time … Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Sorry, got sidetracked. It was another time. This is supposed to be about those damned Russian subs, popping up again like a crazy stalker girlfriend from the past. According to Defense Department officials, one of the Russian submarines remained in international waters on Tuesday about 200 miles off the coast of the United States. The location of the second remained unclear. I hope no Gloucester draggermen snag ‘em. Could be awkward. The submarine patrols come as Moscow tries to shake off the embarrassment of the . . . latest failed test of the Bulava missile, a long-range weapon that was test fired from a submarine in the Arctic on July 15. “It’s the military trying to demonstrate that they are still a player in Russian political and economic matters,” Mr. Polmar said. … “Anytime the Russian Navy does something so out of the ordinary it is cause for worry,” said a senior Defense Department official who has been monitoring reports on the submarines’ activities. I’m with Polmar. Only given that the ex-Commie Air Force has been doing the same thing for several years, I doubt it’s not just the military trying to impress the pols. It’s the pols trying to impress everyone else, at home an... |
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