In the little details are the much bigger pecadillos revealed.
Barack Obama has accused the Iranians of engaging in a ham-handed attempt to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador with the help of Zetas from the Mexican drug cartel. The propaganda machine has been revved up, and the neocons have begun to wail away on their rusty pipe organs with the tired hymn of "Bomb Iran."
And now Foreign Policy magazine has an essay entititled, "CHINA! BAD! BAD!" or something like that. Its authors are Michael Singh and Jaqueline Newmeyer Deal. They have supposedly proved the shocking! shocking! fact that more than once, those nasty Chinese have made a few buckolas by profiting from North Korean and Iranian nukes projects.
I know. Your first reaction is to go all Colonel Kurtz and say, "the horror--the horror." But I quickly realized how many times we've made a few simoleons helping our little nuke buddies --Great Britain, France, India, Israel, Pakistan, and Iran. Believe it or not!
The usual suspects are ignoring a couple of things. One is that China has, and always will act in its own self interest when it comes to pimping its economy. When 'Merkans don't understand this, they go all John Wayne. But maybe this is bred into our bone by our heroin-like dependency on defense contracts.
BAD! BAD NEOCONS!
China believes strongly in the balance of power concept of international relations. If you don't know what I'm saying, go to Wikipedia for Hans Morgenthau. The truth is, China is just like Willy Loman. It's going down the road with a shoeshine and a smile -- just looking for a buck.
When we're all riding the USA bobsled nicknamed, "American imperialism" downhill as fast as we can-- maybe it's about time that the big boys in Washington, DC decided to come out of the closet to reveal that they too, believe in the balance of power concept for international relations.
Some day in the bright, sunny future our national leaders can embrace the concept of actually spending money on promoting the concept of really pursuing that happiness for the benefit of the American people. We'll turn around with that gun in our hand, and we'll look at ourselves in the mirror. We'll put the gun down. Clean up a little. Get dressed and reach for our wallet. We'll start laying jack down on the table with those Benjamins to pay for something more useful.
And we would begin to spend our money at home on things like roads, education, health care, the arts, etc. instead.
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Am I the only one who sees any irony in the fact that we used to get on China's case for being too ideological and now we're on China's case for not being ideological enough?
Selling arms!! Buying our T-Bills!!
:-) / R
R
You're Ron Paul!
What?
Sorry, wrong script...WE MUST NOW NUKE NORTH DAKOTA!! :D
China's number one interest will always be China--eventually we will figure that out.
China? Not so much!! They wanted me to change the title to CHANG CAN COOK....PFFFFFT!! :D
~wanders off~
He added to that the "audacious" claim that rather than a too-hasty resort to war [which has seldom proven to be a successful method of conflict resolution in the long term], those involved in the business of foreign policy should see as their aim convincing other nations that certain desirable (from our point of view) behavior is indeed in the best interest of their nation.
Along those lines is the currently in vogue (in some quarters) notion of "soft power", which given our level of indebtedness to the Chinese, would seem to be the only practical approach. I'd say an economic collapse in China is of far more danger than Iran possessing the bomb -- tho nuclear proliferation is no doubt a cause for concern. Should the growth-rate of the Chinese economy fall precipitously, those who rule that nation may very well look for a scapegoat. That would, of course, not be in the best interest of that nation, but it would be in the interest of those in power saving their own asses.
oh man! I've so missed reading you ~ how happy I am to find this...you'll be happy to hear that the recall for Walker begins here in 14 days...here we go again!
thanks for keeping up the fight for all of us...
The Iraqis will love us when free them from Saddam Hussein (and bomb the hell out of their country). The Afghanis will love us, because we're just trying to help, because dropping bombs is a way to build a new nation. And, of course, if we free the Iranians from the tyranny of Islam they will be what? As overjoyed as a middle-aged white protestant evangelist would be at being able to go to McD's for lunch instead of fasting during Ramadan?
While we're at it, why don't we free Israel from the tyranny of Judiasm, because we know they'd secretly like to be free to eat bacon.
After that, maybe we can must an big enough arrogant coastal majority and free the bible belt from the bible. Now that's a campaign I'd be a foot soldier in.
China, for some strange reason, doesn't think America has China's interests as priority number 1. Why? I think I have to join Rumsfeld in scratching my head over the peculiarities of those foreigners who just don't get it.