From: Adam 

George Sherwood wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 11:20:01 +0100, Adam wrote:
>
>>> It stays very interesting here in many ways.  Not getting much time off
>>> right now.
>> Oh that I can believe.
>>
>> Started sleeping at the office yet?
>
> Not yet, but the time I get home every night is progressively getting
> later and later.  The rest of this week will be tough since the Defense
> Attache is going to be out of the country so I will have to handle both
> jobs.
>



I'm just wondering how soon before some "georgian separatist
movement" blows up the baku-ceyhan pipeline.

>
>>
>>> Really not sure at all what will happen to the north.  Was at
>>> the French Embassy last night, some pretty interesting conversations.
>>>
>> Indeed. I think the French are trying to stand on 2 stools which are
>> separating by the hour & eventually one foot will slip off & the
>> question is will it be the arab stool or the US stool.
>>
>> If I were them I'd let my foot slip off the US stool as governments
>> change more frequently in the US thus memories are shorter.
>
> Not so much conversation about that.  Mostly about living in Baku and
> working with the locals.  Being a diplomat prevents me from saying much
> more here in public, but would love to chat over a beer sometime. 

Indeed. In a noisy crowded bar/next to crashing waves/a waterfall/in a
rainstorm .


> Also for me battling the disinformation from some circles on what we are
> supposedly doing here which is usually completely out of lunch.
>

Welcome to the world......it will only get worse for a period of time as
the Muslims are now mostly rightly convinced that your only interest is in
protecting Israel.....or the oil supply.

I'll bet the Caspian ferries from Russia to Iran are being watched to look
for crates of Russian kit they need testing given how well the stuff
Hezbollah has is performing.

"Battle proven" stickers always help sales esp when shown to do
nasty things to merkava III'es.

Now if they could just ship in some manpad capable of pulling down some
apache etc....they'd be onto a sales winner...


Adam

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