Democracy as currently constituted is a very defective way of running human communities. Unfortunately, it usually involves people voting to take other people's money for their own purposes. It would be better if people voted with their own money - you get votes according to how much money you give the government [which is how the USA electoral system works where they have the best politicians money can buy, as the old joke goes]. Or something like that. Or not. I'm not going to try to design a better democratic system just now.
The genie is out of the bottle. Democracy, for good or bad, is here to stay. There is no way for Hu Jin Tao to escape its inevitability. GWB could intervene and try to accellerate the process for China, but I don't think that would speed things up by more than 10 or 20 years. The consequence of cleaning up after a hostile intervention would be more than the 10 or 20 years that China gained in accellerating the democratic process.
China is ripe for democracy. The Chinese people are basically unruleable. People like Yiwu could never be told what to do (Yiwu: that was meant to be a compliment).
After China becomes a democracy, what is left? The ME would take awhile longer for things to unravel. When oil runs out in the ME 50 years or so from now, outsiders would all have gone. They in the ME will have to sort things out for themselves. However long it takes.
Israel? Who knows? Maybe they are right, good fences make good neighbors.
Is it okay for Hu Jintao's military manoeuvres to deep cleanse Taiwanese families?
Hu Jin Tao did not take over China by force. He went along with the system. The people in power made him king. The guy must have some smarts. Ergo, left on their own (without outside intervention) there is no way Hu Jin Tao will invade Taiwan. The Taiwanese are dug in deep militarily. They have loads of armament inside the caves dug deep into the mountains. The cost of an occupation, if he could ever land, would be very high. Bottom line, they have nothing to gain from a hostile takeover.
We know , if nothing else, Hu is very good in math. There is nothing in his bio that suggests he knows anything about hostile takeovers.
Megalomaniacs think that because they have super-powerful brains [or even if they don't] and gang up with others of their type
It's not like I am chasing them away, but no one has asked me to join. Who am I to opine on such weighty matters? |
