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If a country is called genocidal because it sent gun to Vietnam, what should we call another country which sent troop there and killed 3 million civilians directly.
There is no such things called "good war". Do you really believe those civilians who would consider the high-tech bombs exploded beside their houses as personification of freedom even those bombs were dropped in the name of justice?
I want to repeat my opinion again, governments decide their actions or even make decisions using different sets of criteria or rules, learnt from previous experience. They are not always well defined and not perfect. There is an inescapable tension faced by all governments in reconciling their commitment to principles and the interests of the state. Why would we think our gov always right? Education gave us different version of history, media worked as governments' throat. So, explanation about your attitudes towards history is what an intelligent debate should contain. That's why I'm here – try to find something different from what our television program or newspaper said. It's meaningless to attack each other's country with words like genocidal or rabid.

I never thought our government made no mistake in history. But someone's description and conclusion on China would suggest a possible double standard. They tended to criticize our country with the worst word, but played ostrich when we mentioned the same problem in their country. The views of the non-America world were often ignored or inadequately considered.

They don’t see, as yet, to be rabid PLA/CCP cheerleaders like you or the mouthpiece who claimed that there is NO censorship in China.

I never claim there is no censorship in China. I know that some websites are in the black list of Chinese government. It's wrong and useless to block some specific websites. Just as now, I still could get information about Cambodia from your post in FreeRepublic.
BTW, do you ever hear PATRIOT Act? According to this act, FBI could search telephone, email and financial records without a court order. Would it be better than to be blocked?

This post has identified a problem that the old-timers on here seem to be missing and that the new people on here are of course not aware of. This is a forum for conservatives to exchange ideas and news.

This thread has been hijacked just the same as if a liberal were to start posting on here. FR does not allow people to come over from DU to post here and disrupt. For some reason they are allowing this disruption.

The thread title is, "Man alive nearly 179 hours after quake". It is not titled, "Every chance I get I will disrupt threads about China with my rants over how evil the place is no matter how unrelated my rants are to the subject at hand."

Man alive nearly 179 hours after quake

Ma Yuan Jiang, a power plant executive, was rescued at around 00:50 a.m. Tuesday from the rubble in Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, nearly 179 hours after the May 12 earthquake.

Near 8 days, buried, unable to move without food and water

The 31-year-old survivor was pulled by a Shanghai rescue team from the debris of a flattened power plant, after more than 30 hours' efforts.

It took 30 hours to figure out how to save him.

Rescuers found Ma at afternoon on May 18 at the debris of a flattened office building, when they were digging hole trying to reach Yu Jinhua, a colleague of Ma.

Followed by an amputation operation, Yu was rescued at about 6:00 p.m. on May 18. Rescuers then turned to Ma and sent sweetened water to him through a straw.

They had to amputate to free him, while he was awake, aware of what was taking place.

Ma was receiving treatment at the temporary clinic of the Chongqing No. 3 Military Hospital, and will be sent by air to a hospital in Chengdu.

He will recover but anyone that has been through trauma knows that it will be a long recovery.

On top of this incredible story, we have people on scene that are relating other incredible events, first hand reports to FR...

Aand there are people on here that want them to shut up, go away because in their phobia-striken delusional obsessions they are nothing more than ChiCom Commie shill morons who could not possibly be anything other than government agents because they have access to a computer - with an internet connection no less - and they have been sent to FR to infiltrate it and pollute the thinking of anyone that might have sympathy for the plight of someone trapped for 8 days and only able to get free by amputation while they are awake to experience it.