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To: Lola who wrote (4012)	10/10/2001 10:13:47 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Not pissed off by the critics, just frustrated at the unreasonable nature of the complaints. I am still shaking my head at the criticism, by a very intelligent man, that the US backed the wrong political party in China in 1937! Or rather, failed to back the right one. I don't seem to be able to communicate to him how little the US was able to do on a geopolitical basis anywhere in 1937, far less in China. We were mired in a terrible depression, and the instability in Europe and the rise of Japan were far more pressing. Given our experience with the Soviet Union, backing a Communist in China was simply out of the question, even if he was more moderate than Mao. I spent a while reading Iqbal Latif's thread, which spent time on India-Pakistan-Kashmir over the past couple of days. Those bright guys don't have any solution, and they are from the area. How can we in the US be expected to have better solutions than those who live there?