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To: Ilaine who wrote (62147)	4/17/2005 5:22:07 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<No skin off their nose if a lot of young Chinese men die.> It's not just young men dying out on an agreed battlefield these days, in serried rank and file. In real wars, not skirmishes, it's total war, with cities and civilian populations copping the brunt of the carnage. The nuclear bombs China and the USA have aren't just waiting for their day in the Smithsonian museum. They are primed and ready to go with a carefully and specifically designed purpose of reducing cities to radioactive dust, along with the populations. The better designs aim to irradiate the city with neutrons, from a good altitude, which would leave the inanimate objects intact, while disassembling the living cell by cell. I think that MAD is mad and that in fact, when push comes to shove they will be used. As they already have been. All it requires is for somebody wielding one to think it a good idea to exterminate a big crowd of the opposition, either pre-emptively, or in suicidal revenge. Yiwu would need to leave the USA quite promptly if outright conflict is underway, because from what I've read, she would reasonably be considered an enemy agent. Maybe not paid or controlled, but expressing the antipathy and showing will to harm and therefore likely to do so if an opportunity arises. She's all for an attack on Taiwan, which is an attack on freedom and all the "On Liberty" ideas and Christian principles of "We the Sheeple" which founded the 'Western' success for billions of people, which she so disparages. Before trundling down the road to ruin, people should look all the way down and see what waits at the end, rather than thinking they'll just go part way or sort out the details later. Building and crossing the bridge over the River Kwai walkabouttravelgear.com costs a lot of kwai and a lot of lives <Other required sites include the war cemetery, where 7000 prisoners of war who died working on the Death Railway are buried. The JEATH Museum displays information and artifacts from the horrible period. > Japan crossed that bridge using the lives of thousands of prisoners. They still lost. China isn't the only place which had victims of Japanese militarism. China wants to build a bridge to Taiwan. That will cost a LOT of kwai and a LOT of lives [add maybe 3 zeroes or possibly 5 to the 7000 for the Kwai bridge]. <The currency in the PRC is renminbi (RMB), also known as "yuan" or, in Sichuan, "kwai." RMB are counted as yuan, which are divided into fen (cents). Units of 10 fen are counted jiao. Paper notes are issued as 50-, 20-, and 10-fen units. Coins are in denominations of 1, 2, and 5 fen. > Mqurice