Posted on 10/09/2006 10:46:18 PM PDT by GarryOwen2006
just breaking on fox website now.. in the banner.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Putin may be KGB, but like Ceausescu in Romania, the KGB can get rid of uncontrollable dictators within its orbit. Chia Pet is getting close to crossing this line (If he hasn't already done so)
Are you kidding?....other than Fox News, most of the MSM is an arm of the DNC.
And to think that Putin may have had a active hand in Ceausescu's death...
Thing is that the polls are pre-NK crisis. You have to wait at least 3 days for the polls to reflect current events.
Make that USA Today. Sorry!
You just hit the nail on the head.
China has invested billions into the 2008 summer olympics. The stadium, gynastics & aquatic facilities are soo over top and no expense has been spared. It is absolutely a huge deal for them and their athletics programs. Its supposed to be their world wide "look at us!!!" party and they will settle for nothing less than #1 in medals.
If the Chiapet keeps firing missiles and testing nukes, their is the possibility the olypmics could be called off to to the unstability of the region.
It would crush the Chinese.
Oh, my...China basically telling Mini-Me he's on his own!
It would also irritate the Russians, as one of their warm water ports are in the region (Vladvostok). Also, Russia and China want to corner the Olympics.
yeah, the last thing China needs is a credible threat to its status as 900 pound gorilla.
yeah, the last thing China needs is a credible threat to its status as 900 pound gorilla.
pls pardon the dupes.
What's really going on here, though? Kim Jong-Ill (mispelled on purpose) has (a) embarassed China and (b) done something that is making Japan about seriously considering getting/making nukes. China will not abide either. But they aren't about to fight Japan again -- they've lost every time they've tried. A nice, peaceful, consumption-based Japan is what they want.
If Ill doesn't back down -- and NOW -- his days are numbered. Ironically, it won't be the US that takes him down, it will be China. Strange bedfellows indeed...
I don't post often but here's another viewpoint: China's support for sanctions sounds encouraging. My problem is that I have a hard time trusting breaking media reports and a harder time trusting China or N. Korea.
We don't know what behind the scenes discussions may have occurred between China and NK. China may have told NK they must support sanctions (because of the Olympics, etc.) but that China would veto any meaningful ones.
Another possibility (a hunch) is that China is leery of NK's growing friendship with Iran, and wants to take Kim Mentally-il down a peg. Bottom line: We just don't know what China intends, but it 'sounds' good.
There, fixed that for you. Your points are all correct, except you added Western thinking at the end. The Chinese are not burdened by PC or the like. Kim Jong-Ill has just become a liability to China. They don't "resign" liabilities like we do in the West. They eliminate them.
Expect Kim Jong-Ill to catch the flu (think former USSR) shortly...
Amendment: Except when the US ended the war for them...
Chicoms may have told NorComs to blow off that firecracker.
yitbos
China is like a double agent - clear as mud.
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