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To: Metacomet who wrote (49829)	5/8/2009 7:03:44 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217879

as in chess game, perpetual check processing, until the force checkmate is figured out, does not involve 'decisions are taken in the US' because decisions are made for the US, on war, debt, outsourcing, capital flight, and all manner of perpetual check actions, for that is the nature of the sequence of collapse for whichever is the empire - just history

To: Metacomet who wrote (49829)	5/8/2009 8:07:01 PM
From: Maurice Winn	5 Recommendations Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 217879

MC, you made comment which needed correcting. <... American moves to stabilize this region I assure you that you are much more at risk of seeing your daughter subject to Sharia Law than any mainland Americans. > 1..... The region was stable [relatively] but is now less stable and likely to become a LOT less stable. The British Empire got India under control but failed in Afghanistan. The British were masters at colonizing, stabilizing and improving life around the world for the great majority. The Empire was not like the Japanese effort, or other murderous efforts at empire. The British did more like China, which was export capital and people and entice the local yokels into trade as China is doing in Africa and elsewhere. But Britain also made the colonized British subjects, with full rights [unlike those of the enslaved in the USA]. The UK canceled those rights in the 1970s as the swarms started heading for Britain. The USA is hoping for an invasion, conquer, install puppets, withdraw process. That's not likely to be successful. A few years ago I had a tiny little rooster, about the same size as a blackbird. He crowed too much so I took him to Cornwall Park where there were other roosters and hens. They beat him up and he ended up on the fringes, at the bottom of the pecking order. I decided to lend a hand. When a rooster approached to show him who was boss [and being a rooster he felt obliged to fight to figure out where he fitted on the pecking order] I would throw little bits of bark onto the head and body of the opponent. "Hundred Bucks", my pet rooster, was victorious and pleased with himself. It was minutes before a higher ranking male decided to show him who was boss. A minute later, Hundred Bucks had ascended the ladder further. So an even higher ranking male would decide to put paid to this nonsense, but he lost too. After not long at all, the biggest and toughest rooster in the flock decided that it was up to him to restore the proper order. The boss was very nervous at the prospect of having to deal with this obviously powerful but ridiculously tiny threat. The boss knew that Hundred Bucks didn't get up to being challenger for top job by being a pushover. The boss was very edgy and jumpy but had no choice but to take him on. Hundred Bucks was full of confidence by then. Sure enough, a short time later, Hundred Bucks was top dog [so to speak]. Unfortunately, his reign was short because I couldn't spend all day there helping him defend his position. It wasn't long before General Dostum decided he would have another go and sure enough, he won. Poor Hundred Bucks got kicked to the bottom of the pecking order and was relegated again to the outskirts. When the USA has "stabilized" the region, and returned home, it will not be long before some alpha male pretender to the throne decides he and his gang should be in charge. The installed rulers will soon find themselves relegated to jobs more suited to their talents. Places can be stabilized and civilized, but the process is more like the WWII processes in Germany and Japan, which at one time were quite civil anyway. The Middle East is not quite as amenable to change. 2..... The USA is much more amenable to changing to Islam than is China. If anything, Afghanistan is more likely to become more like China than the reverse. Too much annoyance from Islamic Jihad in the west and China could very very easily send 30 million troops over the Hindu Kush to recover gas, oil and create peaceful harmony along Confucian lines. It took a LOT of people to build the Great Wall. They have a LOT of people. Have you seen ants at work? Humans are like ants. China could form an armed trail via rail for a very long way. If 30 million were not enough, they could send 200 million and it would still be only the second significant figure in the population. India might not object, given the problem they have with Islamic Jihad. Afghanistan's 30 million population would have great difficulty stopping them. Once upon a time, Genghis and his mates went all the way to Turkey. That was on foot and ass, without motors to make the job easier and they had to use sharpened knives to kill opposition. Map of the expansion here: en.wikipedia.org That expansion was fast, not slow. Tarken [our son] is named after a Turk, Tarkan, whose name has got the "Khan" in it [we met the Burak family long ago who had a son called Tarkan and the father, Sezgin, had a heroic comic character, Tarkan, famous in Turkey]. Part of Tarkan's heroism was to fight the Mongols from the east. youtube.com The Khan influence has spread far! Coming the other way, some of our grandchildren are likely to have a resemblance to Genghis since a daughter recently married a presumed descendant whose father made it to NZ escaping Mao's maelstrom. Demographics and migration is an interesting business. You made the comments. It's not a matter of BRIC vs USA. I'm nothing to do with BRICs. Mqurice