We have a very large country with over 300 million people living at any given time, within our borders.According to recent accounts, we add one new person every 30 seconds, and that is not from birth increases.
We have as many opinions in this country as we do people - on every subject. A few watch Jerry Springer and maybe a few still believe Elvis is alive, that UFOs fly our friendly skies, that bigfoot and creatures from middle earth transform into what appear to be earthlings, all the way over the ledge with the 9/11 conspiracies.
We do have our share of fruitcakes, nuts, fools, idiots, and retarded rodeo clowns, BUT that number is, as a whole, insignificant statistically. Less than 1% of a population at any given time is irrelevant as to what their opinions are and we tend, generally, as Americans, to be middle-of-the-roaders (not to be mistaken for middle -earthers although the US is or could be in the middle of the earth depending on ones perspective.
The number of fools and idiots, nuts, and fruitcakes who believe the nonsense listed above are deserving of a strong suggestion that they not reproduce, for all our sakes.That is generally how Americans regard idiocy.
Then we have the flavorful retarded rodeo clowns who run around screaming and hissing about repairing American relations around the world. One presidential candidate said they would immediately send two former presidents on a round-the-world tour to tell the world we are back (and open for business I presume) and work very hard to repair relations with all the nations of the world that have, for seven or eight years been trampled upon.I assume that also means the Lincoln Bedroom is back up for sale.A wise owl would ask - who are these nations we must repair relations with. Anyone who does not ask that question is neither wise nor very useful, instead they play to rhetoric and the retarded rodeo clown mentality (aka Jerry Springer guests).
So who are they, these esteemed nations we must work so hard to rebuild relations with ???
China - a country that consumes 1/3 of the steel on earth, 1/2 the worlds concrete, every minute consumes 2.5 thousand tons of coal, 24 million watts, 210 thousand gallons of oil yet has only 10% arable land, displaces tens of millions of people to produce dams and hydroelectric plants - this is the wave of the future? For this, the United States should sign Kyoto or whatever more recent formulation of silliness exists? Why - so a country can destroy the environment - hydroelectric plants are nearly the worst offenders, making hundreds of acres surrounding the plants uninhabitable and or unusable; pumping out fumes from 2.5 thousand tons of coal burnt every minute, 210,000 gallons of oil burned off every minute - all of this destroying the environment at a rate unprecedented on earth and unstoppable with any new environment program. So we will all weaken and destroy economies to allow this economy to prosper, over-take and to become the most powerful economic might on earth because some retarded rodeo clowns have strong anti-American feelings. China is the threat to the worlds environment. Their technology is not ahead of the US and their use of resources is not balanced against an increase in technology which often times reduces or mitigates environmental damage. In China, full speed ahead and a dead environment is the corpse left behind for show.
A country with 12 million addicts, and a new World bank report suggests, 300 million poor.
This country is the wave of the future? It is not the wave of anything unless it fundamentally changes it political system. Absent that change, it will find itself in a very precarious position - 1/3 of its population in poverty, pumping out deadly greenhouse gases, using of natural resources faster than the rest of the world combined all to benefit a very small percent of the worlds population.
It has the worlds largest number of poor (next to India), uses more resources than the rest of the world combined, displaces tens of millions of people to produce environmentally unhappy hydroelectric plants that further destroy the environment, produce more deadly greenhouse gases than the rest of the world, are ruled by a political system that is bereft of the understanding that people ought to be free and to govern themselves in a democratic manner - a system that oppresses and imprisons, and one whose economy is not quite as large as was trumpeted several years ago ...
A country that, less than 20 years ago, trampled a freedom movement, literally and then made it illegal for anyone to mention what had happened. Today, it is against the law in China to mention what happened at Tiananmen Square.
Image taken from http://www.accountabilityutah.org/IssuesAlerts/LegAlerts/2006/tiananmen-square-tanks.jpg
In 2005, the Chinese communist government sanctioned the use of force against Taiwan should Taiwan push for a formal split from China (at present there is the oddest relationship between the two - it is a game mainland communist China plays). Reuters, Alice Hung. March 26, 2005. Massive Protest in Taiwan against China law.
Unlike the English, we should not cede anything to China - not simply because of in spite of any economic or military issue. There is, contrary to the article linked, no inevitability of anything and it is very much like the Europeans to believe in inevitability. They inevitably failed at pretty much everything they did so it is no wonder they attribute failure or decline to every other power. The Independent. April 18, 2006. Clifford Coonan. America meets new superpower.
Afraid of them - yes. Are they a danger or peace and democracy - yes. Are they a threat to the United States in their current state - yes. And if you would like to fault Bush for real, substantive issues try the permitting of sales of nuclear power plants to be built in China. The idea of Bush agreeing to the sale of nuclear power plants to China given the sieve-like nature of Chinese nuclear proliferation efforts (Iran, N Korea). Why? What could possibly justify this feckless policy? At a time when China has moved much of its resources to building weapons that will neutralize US aircraft carriers when China decides to seize Taiwan by force. WorldNet Daily, July 13, 2002. Jon Doughtery. China to target U.S. aircraft carriers.
On July 14, 2005, an article written by Alexandra Harney for the Financial Times titled: Top Chinese general warns US over attack, makes it clear what China will do when the time comes to seize Taiwan, if the US trys to stop them. General Zhu Chenghu is quoted as saying that "if the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, ... we will have to respond with nuclear weapons."
Some wise old owl might ask, how did China get the technology to develop ICBMs that can reach the US. It might be interesting to consider Loral Corporation and the authorization given by Clinton to sell the technology to China. Further investigation should also consider an article in Insight magazine from November 6, 2000, written by Kenneth Timmerman. To access the article requires a fee, but the lax restrictions and approval of questionable sales to China contributed to their possessing the capability to send missiles into space.
It may be that technology that was used to secretly disable US satellites. An article in The Telegraph, 9/28/06 written by Francis Harris, suggests that China now has the ability to disable US satellites.
Hmm. Can we put the puzzle pieces together? Should we be concerned?
Are they polluting the earth in greater quantity than any other country or countries combined? yes. Do they produce anything that could justify polluting? No. They are not a friend, they are not an ally. They do not care about peace and security in the world - they care about China and oppression.
We do not owe them anything unless it is another apology for the late 1990's bombing of their embassy and the deaths of several Chinese citizens by US missiles.
Otherwise, they are not owed any apology for US actions over the last eight years, in large part because nothing we have said or done has altered their actions or position one iota. They have little to no interest in the rest of the world except to suck it dry - Africa of oil, Iran of oil ... China undermines the US and the West, preventing action in the Sudan by the US/UN. China is not a neighbor that needs respect nor a hug. China is a neighbor we must be wary of and one which is not owed anything. China actually owes us a thank you, for preventing further knowledge to die with the technicians who were dying every time their missiles would blow up on the ground unable to liftoff.
I would settle for no apology just so long as we do not start selling them nights in the Lincoln bedroom, again.
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