Hi CB,
<<I remember Khrushchev and the "we will bury you" speech. Still - that's about Russia - and the Chinese always seemed cooler - until the Cultural Revolution>>
We will buy you is perhaps more acceptable than we will bury you, at the right price, of course:0)
The Cultural Revolution actually was pretty cool, as noted above, for the survivors, like a big bash of an Internet posting party, with consequences, for keeps. When one made a wrong move in the game, one knew:0(
<<One of the things that fascinates me about the Chinese vs. the Russians is how much more easily the Chinese adapt. The Han Diaspora seems to be doing much better than poor Ivan, driving a cab>>
No choice. Not big enough to hit:0)
<<Bigger game is always afoot. It's the nature of man - keep going until you can't go any further. But our attention is turning South. There's a great big part of the world at our doorstep that we've never paid much attention to - it's time>>
Agree. Delicious and so musical. Leave my homeland alone. We the Tobago-ans are peace loving, and them the Trinidadians are music loving. We have plenty of oil, pretty girls, but not enough of motivation to do much about anything, much less to defend ourselves. During the cold war, the Russians tried several times to contract for some submarine base here. The Americans bribed us with oil refinery investments and protection against the neighbors seven miles away on the Latin American mainland. There are so many small games going on amidst the bigger games. Score keeping is hard, scoring harder.
<<If only we could forget about Middle Eastern oil … India>>
It turns out that some fairly large reserves of goodies of all kinds are being discovered in, you guessed it, Tibet – oil, natural gas, minerals. The word is out … preferential treatments for any Han Diaspora who relocates to Tibet. My wife visited the place, lost 10 pounds from throwing up while not eating, due to altitude. Plenty of Internet cafes about in the mountains and also a Holiday Inn. No mention of McDonald’s yet.
<<Nobody but the Sunni and the Shia are going to have much power in the Middle East for the foreseeable future>>
I try to understand many things in the world. Them folks, I failed.
Chugs, Jay |
