George, thanks for posting this piece which missed my radar screen. It is to me absolutely astounding
the potential foreign policy debacle this administration appears intent on setting us up for. I don't worry
about Art 9 in Japan. They don't have the population to fight a war or be really scary unless with vey high
tech missles, but they could go nuke. Our folks in this country are so obsessed with their stock portfolios and
and their consumer-oriented life style it never crosses the collective consciousness that we, the US, and China
are headed on a collision course in one form or the other over oil. We don't produce enough oil for ourselves, thus
dependent on mideast, Venezuela etc, and China must look south, Indonesia-Malaysia, or north, Siberia
sooner or later OR jockey with us over dealing with mideast. As Jay Chen has stated repeatedly on this
thread it is in best interest of US AND China to get along...but the longer (gods, has it only been 100 days?)
I watch Bush Sr and his appointees the more convinced I am that Jay is far too optimistic about US acting in its
own best interest. It is simply IMHO too small a planet for the US to act in foreign policy with only its own direct interests in mind...has none of these bozos never played something akin to chess? Has Bush Sr so completely sold out to big business and the old idea of Military Industrial Complex, that he is totally unaware of longterm consequences( remember his "vision thing " remark in his 1992 campaign?). All of this is really not OT for
this thread because these questions directly impact our decisions about being true to goals articulated byJay Chen so well...ie financial survival...What a F**KING mess!
jim black
PS Yeah, I did vote for the other guy, I admit it, and add with disgust it was simply the poorest choice and most insipid campaign I remember in my lifetime. Election night I was wishing we could have Carter and Ford come out of retirement and run again...and for potential flamers, don't waste your saturday morning time. For every piece of shit you can bring up on Bush OR Gore I bet I can come up with twice that volume on BOTH of them. I really don't like either one oif them. |
