To: TobagoJack who wrote (30160 ) 3/26/2003 4:02:47 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 74559 Jay, re: <In any case, nothing to worry about such an alliance as yet, because the US believes it can police the world in cooperation with UK and Israel, and China is probably studying how Taiwan can be 'liberated' without 'street-to-street', and Taiwan may watching the Iraq campaign development with alarm, as in 'holy sh*t, how are we suppose to defend ourselves as the US occupies itself with ever greater global obligations'. > The USA can police the world. Don't forget they have my support - funding their supply of phragmented photon cdma2000 1xEV-DO light sabres. Hordes of people around the world are still betting on the USA as the safest repository of their hard-earned funds. By contributing our loot, we enable them to hire the talent around the world and pay for USS Enterprise to cruise the oceans, bringing peace, light, harmony, happiness, property, prosperity, health, longevity, fun and and love to the otherwise impoverished seething masses struggling to earn a crust. Humans are making the transition from the eons-old idea of wealth by power alone, which evolved from chimpanzee society of alpha male takes all the goods and the girls. The idea of wealth from territory and confiscation is dwindling in favour of chequebook power, which is far, far more powerful than the barrel of a gun, as shown by the comparison between Mao's dictum about power growing from the barrel of a gun and Deng's black and white cats catching mice and Jiang Zemin's engineering mind and soon-to-be Hu Jintao's social integration of reciprocity, value for value, trade and voluntary association. Hu Jintao will simply buy Taiwan. Taiwanese will vote for closer economic relations. There is no need for street fighting or silkworm missiles which are an embarrassing anachronism. < Indonesian military feel up to it and perky, a palace coup and a grab for oil-rich Brunei may be considered, and if they feel real perky, make a go for small Australia > Jay, even with a following wind, Indonesia couldn't hold onto East Timor. Post 11/9, the USA has realized the error of their ways and Indonese will not be given the green light again to invade anybody. Kissinger gave East Timor's conquest a green light before Indonesia moved in. Although fewer in number, Australia has got fairly good cash flow and excellent military power. They also have the USA on their side. You won't find even a private discussion in Indonesia on the idea of invading Australia, though the invasion by refugees is an ongoing hot topic - Oz is not tolerating them at all. Sensibly. Actually, they are tolerating them in that they don't just sink them off the coast - they turn them back or imprison them if they make it to shore. I will be surprised if India doesn't increase pressure on the Moslem murderers of Kashmir and Pakistan. The Moslem attackers are simply barbarian and have to be stopped. All that is small beer compared with what Hong Kong has brewing for us with Sar Wars. BREW by QUALCOMM will save the world, BREW plus those excellent cdma2000 1xEV-DO phragmented photon light sabres which will bring peace, light .... etc...blah, blah, blah... Things are excellent and getting better by the day. Just make sure you wear your 3M mask and defeat the enemy in your midst. I don't want to have to wear a mask. The sooner other people wear masks, the more I'll like it. Mqurice PS: G330 vs Q385