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To: ild who wrote (1674)	1/6/2001 5:45:10 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Hi ild, I now see the gist of your question. I make the distinction of “hate” and “would like to see in trouble”, as in “getting one’s comeuppance”. Hate is way too strong a word. I think business folks generally adore the US as that is how we get rich and keep our respective government more honest about the treatment of our money. We as a group do not lose money in the US, on the US or to the US, and those that do probably deserve to have their money taken away from them anyway, as God can not take care of everybody. I do not know about the Japanese politicians but none-the-less opinion that the bunch never lived down losing their “justifiable” war. However, the folks out here, and I for one, do have some difficulty with the US press. The US press (WSJ, NYTimes, Washington Post are the typical of the lot) is often sanctimonious, hypocritical and very conveniently forgetful, and thus good to see them twist and turn on their biased hooks. I see the point of a free press, but if I were in charge of things (the world can be thankful that I am not), I am not sure I would not want to nail some members of the press to improve the general atmosphere. Just some examples … definitely not sited here to start fruitless political arguments, and so do not pick a fight with me on any of the below: a. The Malaysian trial of Anwar (however unjustified) is political and flawed, but the nagging against the Clintons is OK; b. The mainland trial of Chinese gangsters deported from HK is some how violating “one country two systems” promise and judged unfair and even illegal, but the OJ Simpson trial is a glorious example of equal justice for all; c. The stock market intervention of HK was thought to have endangered HK’s status as the freest economic entity in the world, but Al’s saving of LTCM was said to be for the good of the world; d. China is judged to be wrong to have supported Pol Pot (even though with US acquiescence as it was judged necessary at the time to limit the Vietnamese), but it was OK for the US to have bombed Cambodia back to the stone ages in the first place; e. Chinese prisoners making dolls is not OK, but American prisoners making license plates is fine; f. China going after political dissent is evil (it is evil), but FBI and IRS making a nuisance of themselves against folks throughout history is OK; g. HK airport’s opening pains for three months marked the death of HK, where as Denver’s opening pain over many years was OK (not as in good for all, but simply as a goof up); h. Japan’s manipulated low interest rate policy was judged to be a cause of the bubble, but it is fine for Al to lower interest rate, not at a regular meeting but as a clear effort to prop up some thing we do not as yet know about (so much for transparency, as the big guys treat us all as children); i. Do not even get me started on the machine gunning of obvious civilians under the Korean bridges during the war (lets see how Bush deals with the War Crimes Court issue); and j. I will not even start on the Israel vs. Palestinians situation. And so it is good and reflective when the shoe is on the other foot. I am waiting to write that particularly nasty note to WSJ and using words like “nepotism” “political dynasty” “opaque” “cronyism” “led by old men” “state intervention” “lack of free market principles” “bubble” “sham statistics” “corrupt politicians” “manipulated election”. I have no time for folks who cannot take a joke and laugh at themselves. I feel I am pretty level headed about most subjects I comment on given my market neutral background … born a citizen of Trinidad and Tobago in China, of Chinese Shanghainese (the distinction is important to her) mother (US citizen who had voted for Clinton because e had a nice face) and cocktail dad (Chinese, French, Creole, looked Indian), with English Jewish (living in China) and American Jewish (living in Russia) half brothers, (have gorgeously engineered cousins (some are Italian, Japanese, Chinese, French, African and Scottish mixes), nieces and nephews in all large countries of the world), educated (high school and college) in the USA, and totally corrupted in HK. Most of the clan is still in Trinidad. And yes, I love my country and the folks there, and I think it is good that they do not have to work too hard given that they are floating on oil and gas. I am basically the best and worst of everything, but very happy-go-lucky. My favorite countries in the world, besides Trinidad, are the Philippines and Italy. I really appreciate small and totally useless governments in charge of gorgeous places populated by beautiful people, and I have no particular use for borders and government revenue collectors.