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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10666)	4/7/2001 1:53:26 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It is one thing to be sensitive to context and to behave cautiously when dealing with other governments. It is another to pretend that we have no principles that matter, and that the oppression of others is a matter of utter indifference. Slavery is so far from indulging a personal eccentricity, like painting geese, that I cannot believe you would use the analogy seriously. We may as well say that a concern for liberty and the autonomy of the individual is a passing fancy, if we remain utterly indifferent to enslavement. Why should the autonomy of tyrants count more than the liberty of individuals?

To: Lane3 who wrote (10666)	4/7/2001 6:07:21 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

This story from the Washington Post makes it sound as though Bush is being the softliner compared to Congress. Despite President Bush's optimism about progress toward gaining China's release of 24 U.S. military personnel, members of Congress are canceling a four-city tour of China scheduled for the Easter recess. Initially, nine senators and 13 members of the House were scheduled to go. That changed after China refused to free the Americans detained after last weekend's collision of their Navy surveillance plane and a Chinese jet fighter. It was the third official China trip called off this week. One by one, lawmakers peeled away, even though the Bush administration considered the trip a good idea. "We had a briefing from the State Department, and actually they were encouraging us to go to maintain a sense of normalcy in our relationship with the People's Republic of China," Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., said in an interview. "They want to view this as an accident and not an incident. Many members tend not to see it that way."