Stitch,
regarding your new hero.
I read that SCMP article last night and frankly, it made my blood boil. Arrogant SOBs like him are the cause of poor international relations that the US has with other countries. I am sorry to say that I consider your new hero "a white supremist leftover from colonialistic regimes of the dark ages of human history".
"The Asian economies will have to play by the same rules as the rest of the world. This is the only fair way to do things," he said, adding that he wanted to deliver "a strong warning that next time out it cannot be business as usual".
Which "the rest of the world" is he talking about? Whose rules are he talking about? Who decided on these "rules"?
He is the modern Jardine and Matheson - buy my opium because you have to play by my rules. He is the modern Matthew Perry - who took a few gun ships into Tokyo Bay in 1850s, and "opened" Japan to foreign trade. We are living in a modern world that has no place for his style of might is right/gunboat diplomacy. As a US citizen, I am ashamed that complete racists like him, with total disrespect for other cultures, are chosen to represent me in international affairs.
Stitch, having read your postings before, I think you probably just overlooked some of Holbrooke's insensitivities before you drew your opinion of your "new hero".
Ramsey |
