From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 17:46:35 MDT
--- Damien Sullivan <phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:23:18AM -0700, Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Oh, I don't know. They all continue to be highly oppressive
> regimes.
> > Castro just executed three dissidents and has arrested hundreds
> more.
> > Talking to foreign reporters is still a crime in Cuba. The movement
> to
>
> And this differs from Most Favored Nation China how?
China is an economic powerhouse of over a billion people, while Cuba is
a basketcase banana republic. Also, most Chinese American citizens'
ancestors came here before the revolution, while most Cuban Americans
came here after theirs.
>
> > I'm not aware of any hostile acts or statements toward Vietnam by
> the
> > US government.
>
> I thought we had them under sanctions, but I could be wrong.
Sanctions are over, we just haven't established diplomatic relations
beyond the consular level or given them any preferential trading
status.
>
> > Iran's ruling clerics are acting to stamp out voices of dissent,
> from
> > university professors condemned to death to newspaper editors
>
> No fun. But reformists do get elected to Parliament. Again ahead of
> China.
Yes, primarily because, despite the fundamentalist propaganda, their
culture was influenced by us for so long, and their demographics got so
screwed up by the Iran/Iraq War, that they can't help but have lots of
public attraction to US culture.
>
> > imprisoned, etc. They continue to fund terrorist organizations
> around
> > the world and give shelter to al Qaeda operatives escaping from
>
> According to Greg's Bruce Sterling article, China helped Pakistan
> develop nukes after India did.
No debate there. I am of the opinion that China is the real threat in
the world today and in the future, and if you've followed my posts on
China in the past on this list, you would see I've consistently felt
that way. Iraq, al Qaeda, Pakistan, among others, are simply being
enabled by China whose military establishment takes it as unavoidable
that they will have a global war with the US within the next 50 years.
Everything they do, therefore, is meant to weaken us diplomatically,
economically, militarily, etc.
China sees the muslim world as a bunch of 'useful idiots' to temper and
enfragile us with prior to the day when they will have to confront us.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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