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Politics : THE STARR REPORT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (1305)	9/20/1998 5:03:00 PM
From: tyro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1533

I'm writing from Europe where American travails are news but not the only news. About thirty years ago someone asked de Gaulle why he wanted France's atomic missiles to point in all directions and the General answered, with reference to America, 'They are a new people; we don't know them well, or who will be their leader fifty years from today.' The fifty years are not up. But America is changing fast, in complexion and in conviction. Perhaps Europe will never know America well. We are now mending our fences with Russia. We know that in China the name of the game is Confucian hegemony. And we know -- their numbers increase daily -- that Chinese colonists, speaking not a word of any language but their own, are on the march to barbarian lands. I'm reading Samuel Huntingdon's 'Clash of Civilizations'. A great work, except that it glosses over the threat of Chinese colonisation which is now happening on a large scale, even in Europe's most most remote villages. A China-Islam alliance would seriously and perhaps permanently doom the West. By what means will China seek to bring Islam into its orbit?