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1 posted on 11/22/2009 10:17:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Oh, the guy is a brit. No wonder. He must really take his multi-culturism serious.


2 posted on 11/22/2009 10:19:04 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A good Blue Dog is an unelected Blue Dog. Ditto Rino's!)
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Another Euro-centric retard that knows absolutely nothing about what makes this country tick.


3 posted on 11/22/2009 10:21:11 PM PST by headstamp 2
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For every action there is an equal and opposite reac... oh wait, nevermind.

Something about sheep...


4 posted on 11/22/2009 10:21:25 PM PST by modhom (deficits=inflation+taxes)
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He’s full of Commie dung.


5 posted on 11/22/2009 10:22:32 PM PST by Red Steel
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His mistake is to base his opinion on America’s decline on what Obama is doing. Obama is a weakling and hates his own country. THAT is the “decline” we are seeing, not the decline of the country!


6 posted on 11/22/2009 10:27:51 PM PST by Mobile Vulgus
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Fortunately, in Barack Obama the nation has a president that possesses a rare characteristic for that office, humility.
How funny!

7 posted on 11/22/2009 10:29:29 PM PST by DallasMike
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Learn to bow? Yeah, okay. Just like the Scottish freedom fighters did in Braveheart.

Who is this twit author?


9 posted on 11/22/2009 10:31:38 PM PST by SueRae
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Limey Poofter.

China has how many hundreds of millions of people on the edge of starvation?

Severe water pollution and desertification

The impossible task of raising standards of living without allowing political freedom.

An aging population.

An entire economy based on potemkin villages.

The only way out is natinalistic fascism: look out Russia, Australia, China, India, and maybe Canada (fresh water).

NO cheers, unfortunately.

12 posted on 11/22/2009 10:37:29 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Perhaps China should speak Japanese. Seventy years ago Nippon was all over China. The USA had something to do with fixing that, even before 12-7-1941.

America shoiuld not kiss up to anyone..

13 posted on 11/22/2009 10:37:40 PM PST by oyez ( damnant quod non intelligunt)
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There is some truth in this article with the exception of that we must learn to bow.

We have not understand China. We gambled that free enterprise would lead to democracy, and did all that we could to encourage free enterprise in China.

We saw the opportunity to exploit China’s vast labor. And we saw it as a competition to exploit that labor before other countries exploited that labor. And we did not see the risk that we were exporting our manufacturing knowledge and know how. We claimed that we were retaining the knowledge jobs even as we exported the manufacturing, but the knowledge jobs go with the manufacturing.

And we did all of this without recognizing that unless we changed China’s political culture, we were creating a super competitor that did not share our values of freedom.

And I don’t think we get it yet. We don’t seem to have a plan to deal with China. We seem to HOPE that maybe China will CHANGE, and in the mean time we embrace UNITY with China. And we risk losing ourselves in the process.


17 posted on 11/22/2009 10:40:17 PM PST by DannyTN
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Now THAT'S a bow!


19 posted on 11/22/2009 10:42:58 PM PST by 444Flyer (OBAMACARE: Population control and America Killing Bill!)
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I think it would pain me too much to read the whole article . . .

some thoughts on the topics, however . . .

1. Americans . . . in a lot of respects COULD use some heavy doses of humility—particularly the whole East and Left Coasts . . . particularly the pseudo leaders, the media, the university elites . . .

2. Bowing in and of itself can be like any other thing. I’ve lived in such cultures more than 16 years . . . I was happy to bow as befit the situation. Was an honor to be so accepted into the cultures by folks who could quickly detect my genuine love for them as individuals and as a culture. Some thought I behaved more like a Chinese than some of their ‘bananas’ did. That was a flattering honor.

3. Bowing can be as superficial and perfunctory as a handshake or a hug. Anyone who think’s OThuga’s groveling bows are anything more than traitorous sell-out gamesmanship must have more than a Lowe’s stock of screws loose. .

4. It is CONCEIVABLE that bowing will become HEALTHIER than shaking hands given all the designer diseases they are intent on reducing the population of the planet with.

5. God is the only one watching who really REALLY counts. And He looks on the heart—whether it’s a handshake, a hug or a bow. Is there genuine caring, love there, or not. If it’s a manipulative, seductive, dishonest game, the reaping will be accordingly.

6. Deadly traitorousness of the kind that seems to be all OThuga knows how to walk in and display . . . will discard him like a used . . . monthly . . . sooner than he thinks.

7. Humility pays great dividends when it’s authentic, from the heart and first of all as unto The Lord.

8. Pride, arrogance goes before a fall. American is not immune to the reaping from such arrogance. I pray the traitorous “leaders” fall first and furthest . . . disintegrating to the subatomic level of bits.


20 posted on 11/22/2009 10:44:57 PM PST by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 TRAITORS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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[Article] The United States has long been in denial of this, believing that the end-point of every society must be Western, by virtue of the fact that its own characteristics are universal.

This is a liberal puke talking about liberal hybris and liberal fantasies. He looks forward to groveling.

Speak for yourself, pal.

Oh, and what ever happened to "do something about it"?

23 posted on 11/22/2009 10:53:41 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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The author can shut up. America will bow to NO ONE. These other nations owe this nation more than they can ever hope to repay for getting their fat out of the fire during WW I and WWII for starters. And what other country sends money and supplies to these countries when THEY face dire circumstances from floods, typhoons etc. How many of them ever came to out aid following floods and earthquakes ( besides maybe Japan)? Not very many.
0bama can go straight to hell and not pass go nor collect 200 bucks.
25 posted on 11/22/2009 10:57:57 PM PST by celtic gal
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Martin Jacques on why the U.S. must get used to decline—and learn humility.

If America keeps electing democrats then they must get used to decline...that much I can agree on.

26 posted on 11/22/2009 10:58:54 PM PST by highlander_UW (To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
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Will the Chinese and the mullahs also bow to us as a sign of reciprocity in this new Marxist world?


29 posted on 11/22/2009 11:04:56 PM PST by Seeing More Clearly Now
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Martin Jacques

31 posted on 11/22/2009 11:08:42 PM PST by kcvl
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The Nihonophile’s of the 80’s just look silly nowadays, just as their cousins the Sinophile’s will look when China starts running into it’s own problems - which will happen.


32 posted on 11/22/2009 11:27:10 PM PST by eclecticEel (The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
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33 posted on 11/22/2009 11:31:14 PM PST by GloriaJane (http://www.last.fm/user/GloriaJane)
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China, in fact, understands the United States much better than the U.S. understands China. This is because China—like other developing nations—has been obliged to understand the U.S. in order to negotiate its economic growth and modernization

This much is absolutely correct. Americans in general, have not understood the rest of the world -- they didn't need to until the 90s. However, once the 90s happened and the wall came down, we had a rush of development by formerly communist and socialist countries and the two giants: China and India awoke from their centuries-long slumber. Russia and the EU and Brazil also changed dramatically (economically mind you in the case of Russia, politically, i'm not too sure).

But common people aside, the failure was in the govt and governing agencies (like the CIA for example), who stuck in their cold war mindset and didn't wake up to new realities.

And in the regulatory agencies who didn't realise that now, US business had no need to comply with a preponderance of rules in CA, IL etc when they could go abroad -- the rest of the world has learnt how to dance the capitalist tune and the capitalist have other partners.
36 posted on 11/22/2009 11:42:01 PM PST by Cronos (Nuke Mecca and Medina NOW!!! 2010 -- Kick the dims OUT!!)
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