But his eyes are slanty, and we all know what that means.
I've thought all along that if he's suspected of spying they should charge him and try him. If he's convicted, fine, he's a spy, punish him. If he's acquitted, he should be reinstated and massively compensated.
Wen's case is only one facet of a much larger effort, though. The whole China-spying ruckus is, if you actually read the Cox report, a huge amount of inflammatory talk based on very shaky grounds. Some right-wing types have issued loud proclamations that "Clinton has let China gain control of the Panama Canal". When you real past the rhetoric, they are referring to the operation of ports near the canal by a subsidiary of Hutchison-Whampoa, a blue-chip Hong Kong firm with operations all over the world. H-W is alleged to be "a commercial front for the Chinese military"; the only evidence of this is that the CEO, one of Hong Kong's most thoroughly capitalist tycoons, has "close ties" with Beijing. Unfortunately, all the average listener absorbs is that "the enemy", armed with a huge stock of nuclear weapons based on stolen US technology, has taken over the Panama Canal.
It goes on and on, and it is really pretty disgusting. Let Clinton stand or fall on his own merits or lack thereof; let's not have a new cold war. |
