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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Hensley who wrote (39527)	3/19/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 67261

Just a couple little quotes from a random article, this time not Bill Kristol. "Some people in the United States are busy spreading the 'China threat' fallacy and trying to find a new enemy for the United States," said Chinese Ambassador Li Zhao-xing in a speech in Washington in January. It evoked something that former Assistant Defense Secretary Joseph Nye, now dean of the Kennedy School of Government, said in 1995: "If you treat China as an enemy, China will become an enemy." I haven't particularly liked our China policy since Tianaman Square, from either side. But on the security leaks, it's not the first, it won't be the last. Happened with Israel, too. And as I mentioned elsewhere, remember the yearly charade of certifying that Pakistan wasn't building a bomb? Pollard or Aldrich Ames didn't raise the level of screams being heard now, but that was on somebody else's watch. Of course, it seems that the primary leak of nuclear secrets was on somebody else's watch here, too, but that doesn't matter either. The next and final paragraph from the story quoted above: Diplomacy, like politics, is the art of the possible. Since the Cold War, Americans have dreamt of engaging Chinese leaders who are more like us than Marx or Mao. Still, it is hard to be a great nation without a great enemy. I don't like that thought, personally.