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To: RetiredNow who wrote (237465)	6/15/2005 7:31:44 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572472

Well, China continues to support North Korea, a regime that really does have gulags and concentration camps. They also do experimental chemical treatments on the inhabitants. I think we need to distinguish between people whose philosophies we don't care for and people who threaten us. I agree that the Chinese are not saints. Tiananmen Square made that very clear. However, I have no sense that they are planning to expand their boundaries and so pose little or no threat to the US nor its allies in the region. So although, I hate for us to be the world police, how can we not point out regimes like NK's, which are a horror and which are actively proliferating weapons that make the world more dangerous? We already know that no other nation on earth cares enough to raise their voice. So does that mean we remain silent? What do you propose? Another invasion? How many times do we take such steps and fall flat on our faces before we stop? Its very difficult to marshal the forces of a democracy when the majority of the people do not believe they are defending the homeland. Nuclear proliferation is going to happen........just like all kinds of information is proliferating because of the internet and through better means of communications. So we need to accept that premise and do everything in our power short of invasion to try and limit that expansion like the Europeans are doing. The odds are not good but they have not been good for decades. Best bet is to get other nations to improve their economic lot through non violent means. When we come up with a formula that successfully prompts nations to move closer to democracy and economic freedom, we will have come up with a way to make the world safe from nuclear annihilation. Until there is more equality and freedom throughout the world, we will always be under the threat of destruction. Unfortunately, the country most qualified to take those steps has self appointed itself as a rather aggressive policeman to the world. A much more preferable scenario would be to rope big powerful countries like China into the world community and get them to help stabilize the world and clamp down on regimes like NK. But we can't do it with a President that doesn't know how to build bridges. Of course. That's why Bush was the absolutely worst president for the new millenium. ted