Posted on 05/28/2008 3:35:49 PM PDT by John Semmens
In a jointly issued statement, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev condemned the United States’ plans to set up an anti-missile defense system as “offensive.”
“By seeking to defend itself from a sneak attack, the U.S. is sending a bad message,” Hu said. “It’s like they’re saying they don’t trust us. How do you think that makes us feel? We have no defense against sneak attack. Why do the Americans think they need one?”
Medvedev echoed his Chinese counterpart’s thoughts and offered an analogy to help make his point. “Among wolves, deadly hostilities are avoided when one wolf lies on its back baring its throat to a potential lethal bite,” Medvedev explained. “This gesture of submission and trust in the mercy of one’s foe defuses the conflict and leads to a peaceful resolution of differences.”
The Russian president argued that a “mutual vulnerability” would reduce tensions between his country and the U.S. “An American defensive capacity to shoot down Russia’s missiles is very offensive and discomforting to me,” Medvedev admitted. “If I knew that the United States was as helpless against attack as Russia, I would have less to fear.”
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Well, we wouldn’t want to “Offend” our mortal enemies now, would we?
“Among wolves, deadly hostilities are avoided when one wolf lies on its back baring its throat to a potential lethal bite,” Medvedev explained. “This gesture of submission and trust in the mercy of one’s foe defuses the conflict and leads to a peaceful resolution of differences.”....that's right Medi, remember it!!
An argument only a liberal could love. (or a leftist communist)
I always thought that the best way to keep the peace was to maintain the military posture that would make it impossible to take advantage of another, not just blindly trust potential enemies.
..you have become a threat. Think further,China and Russia, and who has become the most oil draining and producing countries without liberals putting constraints on them? No one ever though we'd pay a dollar for a bottle of water either...anybody remember why we went for cable TV?...no commercials
Dean Acheson, a very prominent Democrat from fifty years ago, said the following: “No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.”
..wonder what the washerwoman Albright thought about Acheson?
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