Posted on 02/16/2004 8:43:38 AM PST by Dr. Marten
Peter Zhang
BrookesNews.Com
Monday 16 February 2004
When Jiang Zemin offered the customary congratulations to Mr Bush on his presidential victory he was grinding his teeth as he did so. In fact the grinding of teeth could be heard throughout China's military establishment.
Gore was their man. Sa gua (stupid) as they sneeringly referred to him. In their view, any country stupid enough to re-elect Clinton was surely stupid enough to elect Gore. Well, it was a very close thing indeed. (I still believe that Gore would have had his clocked wiped, as you Americans and English say, if the American media was not so politically corrupt).
Once it was clear that Gore had lost, China's militarists pinned their hopes on the Democrats successfully paralysing the Bush administration, gutting its military spending plans and killing off its national missile defence proposals.
NMD is of particular concern to the generals. China has never forgotten the devastation wreaked by America's military technology during the Gulf War. To say they were amazed would truly be an understatement. The impact of the Gulf victory was greatly reinforced by President Bush's stunning victory in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(What these gentlemen find equally stunning is the apparent inability of the American electorate to grasp the administration's military and political achievements and their ramifications).
They saw something that frightened them and yet hardened their resolve, just as Admiral Perry's black ships convinced the Japanese militarists that they would one day have to challenge America militarily — the result was Pearl Harbour and the Bataan death march.
Americans will never know how lucky they are that the Democrats were defeated. I’m beginning to conclude, against my better instincts, that maybe America does indeed enjoy divine protection, even when it people behave foolishly.
However, a national missile system is the next best thing to divine intervention. There is no reason why it cannot be seen as God's work if one is of that particular turn of mind. As my English teacher used to say: "God helps those who help themselves." And Americans had better take that advice seriously.
When a Chinese military paper threatened a loss of 200 million Americans as the price of defending 20 million Taiwanese it was an empty deed. But it revealed a mode of thinking that dominates the Chinese military. OK, we can't beat Americans today or even tomorrow, but there's always next week.
Sometime ago I pointed out that the result of Clinton's treasonable activities was not just to allow Beijing the ability to target with pinpoint accuracy American cities but to relieve the regime of the cost of developing this technology for itself. That may very well have shortened the time frame within which America has to act to protect itself against the possibility of nuclear blackmail or even a sneak attack.
The problem is that Chinese militarists are a pretty stupid and ignorant when it comes to America, as were the Japanese militarists. They have no understanding of the American mentality. They only know to act the bully, thinking this will be sufficient to intimidate the American public, oblivious to the fact that the American public is totally unaware of this blustering. What's worse is that they do not comprehend that should Americans begin to take notice of these outbursts their reaction will be quite aggressive, the very opposite of what is hoped for.
Outbursts like these are not emitted from a vacuum. Behind them is the very genuine worry that America will proceed with a successful national anti-missile defence system that would reduce China's nuclear arsenal to a heap of scrap. They know any attempt to breach such a system would require a continuous and horrendously expensive programme of trying to penetrate the shield, knowing that the shield itself was being continuously improved.
China is still a very poor country. It cannot afford the kind of 'technological arms race' that finally broke the Soviet Union. It can only hope that a carrot and stick approach will work.
To achieve its aims the regime will, on the one hand, whine that implementing a missile defence system will make it impossible for it to resist its own military. On the other hand, it will threaten that such a system is provocative and will necessitate a military response.
The regime can always rely on Lenin's useful idiots to do its dirty work. Already so-called peace groups and anti-American reporters have accused Bush of provoking China and try to start a new armaments race.
However, the regime has one deadly secret weapon in its arsenal that has been unleashed — the Democrats. The regime firmly believes that the Democrats will eventually bring America undone. Their disgraceful — perhaps I should say subversive — assaults on the Bush administration's foreign policies and their shocking attacks on the president's character have certainly given hope to China's militarists. There is something very, very rotten in the Democratic Party and it bodes ill for the future of America.
I have but one question for my American readers. Would you really vote for a group of politicians for whom China's generals are rooting? If so, perhaps Euripides was right after all: "Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad."
Every weapon has its other edge. The American's deadly secret weapon against the Chinese militarists is also deployed and working to destroy them from within. It's called "capitalism" and is rapidly stealing the thunder of the grand marxist imperialism so necessary for megalomaniacal fantasies to flourish. Chinese communism is crumbling and being replaced with a Western style philosophy. By the time these Chinese militarists beleive they are able to challenge America, guess what? They won't want to or their leaders won't let them.
Indeed.
Okay, when you're s**tcanned all of the folks presently in the military as part of your purge of class enemies...
...who in the hell is going to VOLUNTEER to serve in any capacity to close our borders?
Before their attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese imported American scrap tin and steel to build more and more toys from tin, and more and more weapons -- tanks, artillery, battleships, aircraft carriers -- from steel. It was a trading frenzy that produced toys for kids and weapons for conquest.
At the time, the tin-toy induced impression in America was that all Japanese products were cheap and unreliable; those tin toys didn't last long.
It is a lesson that should not be forgotten.
OK, fine.
Fire everyone.
Including the folks who really didn't have legal authorization to do anything--have you actually reviewed the LAWS regarding covert operations, human intelligence, and so on? Basically, you MIGHT be able to hire the late Mother Teresa as an agent--if she passes the background check, and never got anything adverse written down in her "Permanent Record" when she was in parochial school growing up in Albania.
(Aside: wouldn't you like to have a copy of your permanent record from elementary school?)
Unfortunately, Mother Teresa (and those like her) will never know what the bad guys are up to. The bad guys don't hang out with the likes of Mother Teresa.
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