To: elmatador who wrote (10570 ) 10/25/2006 7:11:27 PM From: TobagoJack Respond to of 217750 that is not the way it works either you pick out what is truly important to you and of lesser importance to others, make a stand, and dare the other to escalate when true interest not really at stake, promising equivalent hurt should he engage in the meantime, you go about your business, but fully preparing and alert, and make friends, exercise influence, apply inexpensive intellectual property and leverage low cost manufacturing, to enhance serious hurt-ability, which, in the great schema, should never used, and always waiting i.e. never bluff, and always be serious, gain a reputation, and so it goes the bushies are making the mistake, above all, not of bluffing, but of threatening consequences it is unable to carry out mainland china called the usa/chen bluff on taiwan, and the best bush did was rigging a lawn party and having laura shy away from president Chen in LatAm, with usa media either in the dark or failing to engage or told to behave japan, the lapdog, then backed off similarly, however it may be inclined to leverage taiwan(- CNN report at the time is ONLY available on cache 72.14.235.104 , having been removed from server; and stratfor reported it as a domestic propaganda piece even though the domestic press was COMPLETELY absent from the press conference and there was ZERO China domestic reporting on same - Elsewhere, only the subject heading survived, and content makes not a peep spacewar.com - Trust the blogs, like such lonestartimes.com ) , ... and leaving congress members huffing about having been threatened, then all kept quiet, as in nothing the followup to the general's story is he had not retracted, and was not rebuked, leading to diplomats all over to realize the man was not speaking off the ranch, and so the white house lawn party for hu was rigged, then all went quiet that is how it works, as in 'ya wanna to rock the boat? let's see if it is worth it to ya' but maurice apparently sees something else, and choose to ignore or deny the state of is as he believes gold will reach 2000 but he will not buy it, and qcom will eventually be zero, but he will not sell finance.yahoo.com :0) there is one sure circumstance where the usa will use nuke, and that is if the state of hawaii wanted to leave the union, and the japanese naval squadron showed up in pearl harbour to support such chugs, j