Posted on 12/15/2007 8:36:01 AM PST by goldstategop
It’s Bush’s policy [which he inherited, i.e., Carter’s One China policy] not the State Department’s. The buck stops in the WH.
I wish you all could see the precise dance that we have to play here with China. I wish it were otherwise, but our current policy toward Taiwan is necessary to keep the peace there and ensure Taiwan’s democracy and economy. Bush is not pandering to the Chinese. He (and other presidents before him) is trying to walk the fine line of ensuring Taiwan’s de-facto independence without pissing off the Chinese. Once the UN gave the security council seat to the Mainland and once Carter ceased formal diplomatic recognition of the ROC, our path was set. I wish those things had not happened because it emboldened China, but once they happened, our course was set, and now we must walk this fine line. Don’t bash Bush for not supporting democracy; he is trying to maintain Taiwan’s democracy.
“While Bush was fighting terrorists..I see the little trolls have been working overtime. Time to place our eye back on the ball.”
Tell it to Compean, Ramos, and the US soldiers in jail for “homocide” in Iraq.
You are preaching to the choir.
Sorry, Kabar. Thanks for trying to straighten out the thinking here. Wish we could get others to see that Bush is really defending democracy here. It already exists and if the Taiwanese aren’t careful, they will lose it.
Sorry, Kabar. Thanks for trying to straighten out the thinking here. Wish we could get others to see that Bush is really defending democracy here. It already exists and if the Taiwanese aren’t careful, they will lose it.
Sorry, Kabar. Thanks for trying to straighten out the thinking here. Wish we could get others to see that Bush is really defending democracy here. It already exists and if the Taiwanese aren’t careful, they will lose it.
Sorry, Kabar. Thanks for trying to straighten out the thinking here. Wish we could get others to see that Bush is really defending democracy here. It already exists and if the Taiwanese aren’t careful, they will lose it.
Sorry, Kabar. Thanks for trying to straighten out the thinking here. Wish we could get others to see that Bush is really defending democracy here. It already exists and if the Taiwanese aren’t careful, they will lose it.
Wow, sorry, didn’t mean to post that so many times. My browser hung up on me and I didn’t think it sent. Sorry everyone.
I see Romney, not as a good replacement for Bush but the next step to move the country forward...as in Move America forward progressive style.
I know it's a global economy but someone has got to think of America. Most of the Presidents and elites came from humble beginnings and now they want to shut the door on future generations of bright Americans from ever reaching the American dream by hard work and sacrifice. How can they sleep with themselves at night?
We want to improve the third world, not become one.
The US has not always supported the right of one region of a nation to unilaterally declare its independence from the remainder.
Think 1861.
The State department has been left-leaning since the 1930's, and seems to have carried this bias to current times. In the late 1940's, each federal department had their own Loyalty Review Board, as each department had bore responsibility for its own hiring and firing [or the more insidious quiet resignations, allowing the perp to jump to another federal job without incriminating evidence in their file following them]. Typical of these boards, the culling of job applicants ran between 5 and 10%. The State department stood out, alone among all departments, with a 0% record of culling applicants. Was State just good at only attracting loyal Americans as employees? Or was it that they were so fully infiltrated, that the applicants as well as the Review boards were as corrupt as can be?
As the oil runs dry and Chinese leaders face the pressure of keeping a populace newly accustomed to some measure of wealth from rebelling, Taiwan will cry out as a worthy distraction.
It is the flashpoint for World War III and it has no value to anyone. The US needs working age people and Taiwan has them.
The time has arrived to adjust the demographics of the US by evacuating that worthless island and moving the people, and industry, to the US.
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