"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Where are the “Condi Rice for President” crowd now?
Hmmmm?
Is there just a chance that she’s not really any kind of Conservative?
They’ll treat Taiwan like a despised step-child, while kissing the Chi Coms and the unwashed Mexicans!
HERE is a clue for these Junk Media types. Unless you fully quote the statement with NO ellipses or redactions, rational Americans assumed you are lying to us in your article.
The only difference between the Right wing Junk Media and the Left Wing Junk Media is what they lie to us about.
If the Junk Media wants to ever regain it’s intellectual credibility, it needs to stop with these sorts of drama queen hysterics and get back to simply REPORTING the news. We, the American People, are MORE the capable for forming our OWN judgments on these issues without the help of these “Journalists”.
Ok, I give up. Why did you feel the need to post the same article, same source, TWICE (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939923/posts)?
Oceana has always been at war with Eastasia.
If ya think President Bush is up the chi-coms butt,
Jut take a look at how he treats the Mexicans.
But what did Debka say
I lived in Taiwan for 2 years and while I would like Taiwan to be an independent, internationally recognized state, we are just not there yet in the international world. The RealPolitik considerations of having Communist China 90 miles away across the Taiwan Strait with a huge army and nuclear weapons are something that cannot be ignored. The fact is that Taiwan is already independent. It has a thriving democracy where the people govern themselves without intervention from the ChiComs and the 17th largest economy in the world. Taiwan is doing well for itself and any act by the people of Taiwan to declare independence, or assert itself internationally will jeopardize both their democracy and their economy. In your haste to accuse G.W.B. of selling the Taiwanese down the river just to cozy up to the Communists in China, did you stop to consider that maybe he is trying to remind the Taiwanese of what they have to lose? If the Taiwanese do declare independence, they will be attacked by China. If we do not come to their aid (something that we should not do if the Taiwanese continue provoking China with their drive to be formally independent), Taiwan will lose all of their sovereignty to the Mainland. They will not even have the level of freedom that Hong Kong and Macao possess. The issue is not whether the Bush Administration is being hypocritical by not supporting democracy in Taiwan while going to war for democracy in other parts of the world. Taiwan already has a thriving democracy and Bush is trying to keep it that way by not provoking the ChiComs. Give him some credit.
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.
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?