When I read stories like this, I wonder if extraterrestial aliens have taken over the planet. The leaders in democracies make no earthly sense in the acts they take against Islamics, Fascists, and Communists. Among them. they seem to have killed a good percent of the world's people. Yet, they go unpunished. I find Bush's comments on immigration baffling to say the least. Who is controlling the leaders?
Everyone acts the way they are incented to act.
We trust people that we should not trust because they have oil and money; they fund terrorists to kill us and torture our citizens.
It works the same way with the Chinese. They are only play-acting being a civilized society, yet we let them run a huge trade deficit against us, expose ourselves by investing in their country and grant a facist state legitimacy (e.g. the WTO admission).
We get what we deserve.
That would be me.
Um-m-m...them loco Kemosabe.