Posted on 12/10/2002 8:39:22 PM PST by hchutch
Condi Rice rebukes China's Xiong on nuke threat to L.A., WASHINGTON TIMES is reporting on Wednesday... MORE...
If you aren't well versed on her resume, why do you attempt to call her a token?
I was allowing for my own shortcomings to be factored into the discourse. It was an open invitation for all of you enlightened Pubbies to tell us all of CR's qualifications - which you neglected to do.
My limited understanding of her background is that she is from academia, and got high focus group ratings when she spoke at the Pubbie Convention.
No one has been able to convince me that she was the best person for the job, unless the best person is someone that is both black and female.
Of course, if you were from LA, you'd probably be better educated.
No, I just would be overtaxed and living in a multi-ethnic ghetto, while thinking that I'm so enlightened because I paid $600K for a shanty of a house.
Hey 'moron' Many Freepers are LA based, are they tumors? I have three sisters who live there and would put that tumor size b-ball where da sun don't sun for ya.
We have FReepers everywhere - Seattle, Berkeley, NYC, Boston, and even *GASP* union members!
My comments were based upon LA as being a huge festering wound in the national culture - just like most big cities. LA just happens to be the worst - edging out Detroit, NYC, and New Orleans.
I stand behind my comments. If you are too uptight to speak in hyperbole from time to time, one wonders how you make it through the day.
Lighten up, Francis.
Strictly out of curiousity, what would you have done about the EP-3 incident?
Destroying the EP-3 would have been the first order of business. Yes, everything was probably destroyed by the crew, but it sends a message to the next tyrant that you don't mess with the US Navy.
A much more forceful demand to return our crew would have been nice. Perhaps MFN could have been offered to the chopping block? Perhaps having a bunch of EastPac naval assets bearing down on the island would have sent a signal. USAF bombers running 24/7 off the coast of China would have sent a better message than a garbled "apology."
When someone takes your military assets you have to respond in a manner which will make them give them back and never do it again. We showed the world that if you have two dozen US military, we will drop everything and listen to your pathetic cause. One of the guys was once on my crew. I would have hated to lose him, but the greater cause of the next crew has to be at the front of our mind.
We emboldened a tyrant that day. China does not have the strength to challenge us. Yes, they have weapons that could destroy that festering sore in Southern California. If they did, there would be about a billion fewer people today than there was on 4/1/01. They would never have done it.
The reason we fumble**cked the situation was that we are dependant on their slave labor. GWB knows this. All those "Made in China" goodies would be more expensive if they said "Made in USA."
She worked under Bush 41 (or Reagan?) as the top analyst on Russia policy, back when they were bad and it was important.
Thank you. It is nice to get a response with some thought rather than the usual political blather.
Interesting.
"Miss Rice and two aides met with Gen. Xiong and three other Chinese military officials in her office at the White House West Wing.
'She stressed that the United States does not support Taiwan independence but that we have the means and will to meet our commitments to Taipei,' the senior official said."
"The U.S. does not support Taiwan independence." Wow. That's news to me. Is this the one China policy? "...but that we have the means and will to meet our commitments to Taipei." Major cognitive dissonance. If we don't support Taiwan's independence, why would we help her defend her independence from Communist China?
According to the Bible,* "...The rain falls upon the just as well as the unjust" - or something to that effect; that would go for RADIOACTIVE rain as well, we suppose.
We live in Southern Maine, and a radioactive cloud from a Boston Ground Zero on the prevailing winds would drift right over us within an hour or two. There would probably be significant chunks of hot (in more ways than one) debris still falling out of it as it went over. Not a good thing!
I know. I was just "foolin' about". I live 25 mi east of SF, and would suffer the same fate. Perhaps too much of a sacrifice of innocents just to rid the world of the moronic liberals. But then again, left to their own devices, they will surely destroy civilization anyway. Maybe best to go out with a bang. FRegards, Tom :O)
'She stressed that the United States does not support Taiwan independence but that we have the means and will to meet our commitments to Taipei,' the senior official said."
Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia...
Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has never been at war with Eurasia...
Whatever it takes to fool 'em today. It's your government, and they are here to help.
Although I've not lost anyone I know in the Islamic attacks on the WTC, I have not, nor will I ever, completely get over it.
Obviously since the weather is so splendid on the left coast according to you, that must mean the smog and the valium clouds you inhaled, obviously something went wrong with your way of thinking and not feeling?
Obviously since the weather is so splendid on the left coast according to you, that must mean the smog and the valium clouds you inhaled, obviously something went wrong with your way of thinking and not feeling?
Come again?
LA sucks with good weather, and it would really suck with weather like we have in Dallas. How is it living in a Third World country right here in the USA?
Take a poll.
Huh? Great idea. You go first.
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