Posted on 06/16/2010 1:16:01 PM PDT by pissant
Good, I loved Ronald Reagan, and Duncan Hunter is a Reagan conservative, which is why I love Duncan Hunter.
Of course, Duncan Hunter would not have supported amnesty, as Ronald Reagan did, but nobody is perfect, nor can we expect to agree with any polician 100%.
See my point??
I am under no illusion that any politician is perfect, and have said so repeatedly for years. Nor do I espouse the 'purist' rhetoric that a RINO support/endorsement disqualifies someone from being a conservative.
Perhaps if you were to check my posting history, you'd see that.
DH: “And their (China) industrial base is growing by leaps and bounds, fueled by American trade dollars.”
Lately I’ve been seeing more and more food products produced in Red China, and to buy garlic powder, I had to send away for it in CA. Chinese food is filthy, so what if there’s a time when we have no choice but to purchase food from China, just as we don’t have much of a choice when purchasing electronics.
What can be done?
That's right. We can dig and file lawsuits, but we cannot depend on this being a silver bullet. By the time it is litigated properly, he will likely be out of office in 2012.
Is there a difference between a primary and a general election in your pea brain, or is pimping RINOs over conservatives the same as plugging your nose and voting for McCain/Palin over an Obama or Hillary?
What does hypocrisy smell like? Because it is starting to reek heavily here.
You and the truth have never met. You going to support Flipper again, by the way, kneepads?
Thanks, pissant. A great man, he. A true visionary, as I often stated during his presidential campaign. I would be interested in what he has to say about the Gulf of Mexico fiasco. Incidentally, I wonder if Meg Whitman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. It would not surprise me if she is. Go Dino Rossi!
Go Clint Didier. ;o)
I don’t know much about Didier, but Rossi has name recognition. Anything to get Murray outta there!
We’ll get rid of that dingbat, whoever wins the primary.
not cute, just accurate.
AJM: OK. Let me get one more question in. And that is China last week, we were scheduled to send Bob Gates over to meet with their officials in one of these muckety muck military exchanges that we’ve been doing for awhile. And they slammed the door in his face and said ‘no, the time is not good for that’.
DH: You’re coming in broken now. We are sending Secretary of Gates to China to do what?
AJM: To meet with their military on a peer to peer level. And China said no, they didn’t want to do it. Just cut them off with minimal explanation and it probably has something to do with Taiwan or North Korea. But I guess I really want your take on where we go with China? Because they obviously don’t like us, or our foreign policy.
DH: Yeah, I think what we have to remember is that China is still run by the tough old boys in the Politburo, who are fairly ruthless people. And they are still adherents to communism and communist ideology. And their industrial base is growing by leaps and bounds, fueled by American trade dollars. And that industrial base is turning out a fairly formidable military machine. They are out-producing us in submarines by more than 5 to 1, if you include the Russian purchases they are making of Kilo Class submarines. They are making a new multi-role fighter. They are making about 100 ballistic missiles per year, many of which are staged, incidentally, in the area around the Taiwan Straights.
And so China is stepping into the superpower shoes that the Soviet Union left, clearly. And our ‘optimists’, including those who have lots of commercial transactions with China, involve themselves in pollyannish discussions about how the Chinese are going to be a benign trading partner and will ultimately be a cooperative member of the Western economic community, and will not be a belligerent with respect to security issues. It’s rubbish.
The problem is neither one of those ‘hopes’ – and that’s all they are is ‘hopes’ – are being realized. The Red Chinese are hitting us with a sledge hammer in terms of taking our manufacturing base away from us. They are not interested in realistically valuating their currency. They are maintaining a major advantage in trade as a result of that. And they are maintaining their value added tax which they use to subsidize their own exports to us and to penalize our exports to them.
And with the new found cash which they are receiving from the United States, they’re purchasing sophisticated military equipment from the Russians and they are making lots of making lots of military equipment themselves.
Red China is fast becoming a military superpower and every now and then we get jolted back to reality as we did when that American aircraft was forced down and they pried open the cockpit with bayonets. These folks are tough. They’re brutal. They’re communists. They brutalize their own people. And they are not necessarily an extremely stable government.
We naively work through China to handle that crazy aunt in the attic - that is North Korea. And I think they’ve played that card intentionally against us, because they haven’t handled North Korea.
AJM: Yeah, and you probably have noticed that they are holding out on any condemnation of North Korea for sinking that South Korean ship a couple months ago…
DH: Yeah. China is flexing its economic muscles, and the Obama Administration is somewhat cowered by that. I think that China’s leaders despise the United States in the same way they despised the other western powers who in ancient times traded with them; in their eyes, exploited them.
You know one friend, who was on a CODEL to China gave me an example. While it simply was a small example, I think it is to some degree symbolic of their view of the US. He said that the congressional delegation was at some meeting, waiting to meet with a Chinese official, and the Chinese brought out a big stack of ties. Nice neckties, obviously made in their textile industry. They told the congressional delegation and the staff members of the delegation that they could have these ties. So the Americans were sorting through the ties, taking the ones they wanted, and this friend of mine said he looked over at the Chinese handler who was kind of in charge of them, and he said that the guy had a look of total disgust on his face as he watched the Americans frantically pawing through this stack of neckties to get the ones they liked best. So here in his eyes, were the western capitalists. And in his eyes, we are there solely for economic gain.
So I think this massive transfer of wealth and technology that we’ve made to China has not induced a benign attitude toward the United States. I think they look at us as greedy capitalists trying to exploit them, and that they are going to exploit us in return.
AJM: Well I think it would be fine if we looked out for our interests in the same manner that they looked out for theirs. But we don’t. In 25 years, we’ve taken a third world bass-akwards country and made them into a superpower and our banker, by transferring that wealth.
DH: Yeah. If Ronald Reagan came back today and we informed him that China was now our banker, and then with glazed eyes said to him “you believe in free trade, don’t ya?”, the President would go into shock. I mean they were literally gnawing the bark off of trees when he left.
This is a self inflicted wound by the United States. And it really is a tragedy and I think it’s going to be difficult for the United States to ensure that this century is another American Century.
The Chinese are very pragmatic. They do what they think is necessary to advance their interests. And they are very blunt. But our Administration and the State Department is full of foolish optimists who sit around hoping that things are going to get better.
But I think the possibilities, as time marches on and China becomes stronger and stronger militarily and economically, and as they move out to claim or develop more of the world’s resources and lock them in. For example, a Chinese consortium, after Americans won the war in Iraq with blood sweat and treasure, the Chinese moved in quickly and secured one of the major oil leases in Iraq. So there is a real chance, without an abrupt reversal in our China policy, at some point there might be a conflict in Africa or in Asia or other places where the Chinese are developing resources for movement back to the mainland, a conflict could very well develop in a way where the United States will be involved in a conflict with the Chinese. Perhaps not directly, but certainly in a proxy sense.
You know the Chinese and the Russians, when we abandoned Vietnam in 1974 and 75, the Chinese, together with the Russians poured 800 thousand tons of weapons and equipment into the North Vietnam, as they made their final assault on South Vietnam. We abandoned our allies, much to our disgrace, pursuant to the Fulbright and Kennedy Amendments. We cut off our allies to the point where the South Vietnamese soldiers were being rationed two bullets per day per soldier. And of course, they quickly fell.
But that tendency of the Chinese to seize openings, such as the opening that existed in 1974 and 75 in South Vietnam, is not necessarily extinct. In fact it is alive and well. And we might see a time not far in the future, when we get a call from a friendly nation, from another country, to come help them resist a Chinese occupation. That would be a very difficult thing for the United States, a very difficult problem. And with the current administration’s proclivities, it becomes more, rather than less likely.
BTTT.
DH: I think in the end she endorsed the Arizona law.
AJM: I don’t think she did. I think you are thinking of the other gal. I know Fiorina did, after initially saying it had a “racial tone” to it.
DH: Well, she went back and forth on it, so maybe I don’t know what Whitman’s final position was.
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For Duncan Hunter not to be certain, what do you think CA voters think and BTW, the subject was AZ’s law?
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