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Posted on 08/25/2008 8:01:48 PM PDT by george76
Unless, we want to win more than they do.
I suppose it is our choice if we want to level the playing field, even the score, and kick their asses.
Either that, or we suck it up and don't whine.
Them's the cold hard facts of dealing with Asia in a competitive sense.
If it is not worth it (and who in their right mind wants to pay this high of a price!?) dont we just fold our cards and go home.
There is only victory (or trying as hard as we can for it) on the one hand, or giving up and not being a player.
No whining allowed. Not much middle ground to speak of.
The Japanese were reflecting on this point all this morning on the radio. "To beat the barbarous, bastard Chinese, we (the Japanese, they said), will ourselves have to become barbarous and bastardly." Most here in Japan I talk to, do not want to. (Sentiment to do so may have been there 60 years ago, though. Talk about self-sacrifice for the nation!)
That is really horrible.
Some, I’m sure would say that is “spliced” but I’ve no doubt that is really what goes on. And just think, we try to compete against these people fairly.
This is also how they probably produce their soldiers. Why do I think of Ancient Sparta looking at this?
That Chinese infrastructure is coming up fast and hard on the heels of the USA, and eventually they are going to eat our lunch--if we don't watch out, despite great deprivation to their own people.
People who have been to the China in the last three or four years and see the ascendency, and then compared it to the shoddy infrastructure crumbling in the US in more and more places and sectors of the economy, will know what I am talking about.
Japan knows it. Most others I have talked to who have been to Minneapolis and Beijing, Houston and Shanghai, Philadelphia and Guangzhou, know exactly what I speak of.
By the way, lately I’ve noticed some more honest articles coming out from the LA Times, some that I would actually give the time of day. Is there a change going on there?
....”Objective Sports - Goals, Quickness, Accuracy (eg Basketball, Track, Shooting)
USA 33 Gold, China 25 Gold
Judged Sports (Gymnastics, Diving, Boxing, etc)
China 26 Gold, USA 3 Gold.
pliable officiating, and loose rules regarding age help too.... “
This was a point I was trying to make all the way through the olympics. Look at the difference in gold medals (for the ChiComs) between “judged” sports and real head to head sports.
(I have long argued that no “judged” sports should be in the olmpics because they will NEVER be fairly judged. Darn. We would have to rid of gymastics AND, in the winter, fagureskating.)
I guess if the host country get’s this kind of favoritism, the UK can look forward to a boatload of “judged” medals in 2012.
The ChiComs “gold medal total” is laughable when you sit back and look at it in perspective....
Slavery built the pyramids, too, but there’s NOTHING to admire in achievements that do not come from free people freely choosing to discipline themselves for noble ends!!
The PRC is a slave state and nothing that they can force people to do is worthy of admiration, no matter how initially impressive it might seem.......
Yes, of course, and last year I had some really smart Freeper, oh so educated and familiar with the Russian way, much smarter than I, explain to me how Communism is an ideology, not a religion.
Uh huh.
I agree. The world knows what goes on there. They remain silent on China, yet demonize America for the slightest thing.
And Obama thinks we should be like China. good grief.
And the Rats are going to make sure it continues. For example, the Rat governors of 14 states have sued the EPA to make them set rules on CO2 emissions from refineries. Refineries are already struggling to keep up with existing AQ regs and the mandated boutique fuels for different US cities. Meanwhile countries like China and India give only lip service, if that, to environmental controls. Nothing like driving with the brake on, especially since the science is showing that CO2 is only a very minor player in global climate change no matter what the politicians and enviro-nuts say. Unfortunately, like a big ship at sea, change to the policy will be slow in coming.
Ah, but they have “the state” as their family.
And this is the goal.
Look at the policies we have in America, and the attitudes towards large families and kids in general.
The left is doing the devil’s work, destroying the family. Every leftist policy has the effect and intent of destroying the family.
Probably an atheist trying to deny that atheism is itself a THEOLOGY.
Atheists and their Secular Humanist counterparts love to position themselves as the neutral or default ideology that is devoid of theology.
You are waking people up, which is good.
I’m not sure the Chinese system is superior.
They find a target, set it, and aim all their resources (including people and the souls and bodies) towards it and damn the consequences. And they win, no doubt.
But does this really create a whole society? They have to create a huge bureaucracy and totally disrupt the family for this. This has to not only have consequences elsewhere, but also the method itself is flawed.
For instance, I see no room for innovation. If you notice, the Americans always excel in the “up and coming” sports.
They do this all with “volunteers”. But the reason people volunteer is their lives are so horrendous this is their hope.
The frightening thing is, they are working their army in the same direction. In another post I mentioned Ancient Sparta. They used to take young children away from their parents and abuse them to make perfect soldiers out of them.
That was painful to watch. And amazingly there were people on there supporting this! WOW....
susie
That video is sick! And I would assume what it doesn’t show is worse.
Ban China from international sports!
And they didn’t even get the most medals.
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