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To: IronJack

Your post is riddled with logical flaws. It's the rhetorical illustration of how to a man with a hammer everything looks like a nail.

Japan and Germany of that era were nothing like China of today. Both Japan and Germany were rapidly moving toward totalitarianism. For the past 20 years, China has been rapidly moving away from it, hand in hand with the rise of its middle class, a shift toward capitalism, and improvements in education.

And finally, China may be our adversary in many ways, certainly our economic competitor, but in no way is she our enemy.


7 posted on 05/02/2006 11:00:28 AM PDT by zook
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To: zook
For the past 20 years, China has been rapidly moving away from [totalitarianism], hand in hand with the rise of its middle class, a shift toward capitalism, and improvements in education.

Uh huh. Tell that to the Falun Gong. Tell that to the residents of the Lao Gai. Tell that to the vanished heros of Tianenmen. You must be blind.

And finally, China may be our adversary in many ways, certainly our economic competitor, but in no way is she our enemy.

Oh, for heaven's sake! What will it take to wake you up, an atomic strike at LA? Why do you think China is devoting so much of its GNP toward a military buildup? The parallel between 2006 China and 1936 Japan is chilling.

Everything to me may look like a nail, but to a blind man, everything looks kind of blank.

8 posted on 05/02/2006 8:21:22 PM PDT by IronJack
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