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<< Your declarations seem overwrought to me . . . >>

That's a nice way to put it. Droll! That was my intent.

The Peter-Principled I was referring to, though, are those in America's corporations not in China's. My wife and half of my famaily are of Chinese ethnicity and, as the experience of Once-Free-British Hong Kong demonstrates and I can vouch, outside of Peking there aren't too many idiots among the Chinese People.

But our Peter Principled are of the execrable variety that will sell Peking's psychopaths the rope with which they would hang us -- and weapons with which those mandarin-wannabe thieves and liars and mass-murderers would, if they could, destroy Our Nation and with US, Human Civilization.

And Chase and BoA and CitiBank et al, who will bump our credit card interest rates a few points to pay for it all -- and the institutionalized fraud misnamed the "ExIm Bank" will send the bill for the balance to Treasury.