Too Much To Dream

There's a cold wind blowing down the necks of the Butchers of Beijing.

North Korea has well and truly slipped the leash. Taiwan has embarked on an impressive armament program. Japan is contemplating "going nuclear." Iraq will soon be rid of Saddam Hussein and the Baathists, and Iran will soon be liberated from its theocracy.

Beijing's dreams of dominating Asia and the western Pacific are looking less likely of achievement all the time. Even domestically, the Communists' grip on power appears shaky. Some things are too much to tolerate if you want to keep your people down. Free international communications. Photocopiers and fax machines. Capitalism.

And with all this, they have to face Dubya as well.

Toss in your cards, boys. You know not the day nor the hour, but it's a lead pipe cinch that when it gets there, you'll want to be somewhere else.

"The ball of liberty is now so well in motion that it will roll right around the globe." -- Thomas Jefferson

The tyrants of the world starve their children so they can sink tons of money into ambitious weapons programs. They tremble when they watch a country such as ours, with the number one health problem being obesity, dwarf their paltry attempts at weaponry.
China is screeching so loudly about stopping our Iraq campaign because they fear what their military is seeing. The Generals of the PLA must be weeping. All that effort they've put in and we, almost as an afterthought, put them in the black of night with our shadow. What must they think, knowing we haven't come close to putting our economy on a war footing?

well, duh. why do you think their spies are continually trying to steal our weapons technology right out of our labs? ;)

having been to China before the uprising, i have a strange viewpoint. they were careful to show our tour group their best - students of Beijing University and other young people as guides who spoke of China well, and hopefully.

now whenever i look at my China pictures, i wonder if they are all still alive...