Posted on 12/04/2016 2:13:36 PM PST by quesney
:: I know things get said during campaigns. Republicans say things about other Republicans and Democrats say things about other Democrats. Ugly personal things that hit them right where they live. Then they make up over a glass of scotch and a steak dinner afterward because, when you campaign, you’re playing to WIN ::
Have you read “The Art of The Deal”? If not, you should, even tho you have articulated one of the finer points found therein.
YES! I just heard John Bolton make his point on Fox Business News and he said, “The idea that an American President cannot talk to WHOMEVER...”
Yes! The Ambassador speaks good English, and all the naysayers around here can go pound sand! The error was by the nitwit journalists.
See #82.
Cyber high five!
“EVEN LIBERAL DEMS VOTED TO GO TO WAR IN IRAQ.”
“Given what all our intelligence agencies were saying at
the time, I’m not surprised.”
= Quotes from Windflier
Julian Turner is a Senior Associate with Jones Group International (JGI), a global strategy firm, where she works directly with former National Security Adviser Jim Jones. She has a regional focus on Africa and the Middle East.
But Julian Turner is upset... Let’s face it, she & President Obama accomplished nothing with China. Now, when the next president might achieve better relations with China, she’s engaged.
Thousands of miles? Taiwan is the size of Maryland.
It’s funny how we can misunderstand each other. You were talking aobut Taiwan. I thought you were talking about Scarborough Shoal or another of the small South China Sea islands that China is claiming and building up with a military presence. They control thousands of square miles of ocean.
Sorry for the misunderstanding.
It’s all good. When I posted my thing, I was expecting to get schooled, which I probably will a little later.
“As a separate matter, I read once that Nationalists were on the cusp of victory before being influenced by communist sympathizers inside an American Administration. I don’t recall whether the President was FDR or Truman.”
The book showed the Nationalist Chinese as worse than the Communists, which is one of the reasons the Communists came out on top in the end. FDR favored the Nationalists, big time, to a fault. He just kept pumping in aid, and the Nationalists just kept wasting/misusing it.
The Nationalists generals ground through conscripts at the rate of replacing entire units every two years because of death and desertion. The generals got paid based on the numbers on the books, so starved and dead from disease conscripts meant nothing but money in the bank to them.
Enormous numbers of China’s young men were simply wasted with starvation and disease by the Nationalists, who mostly refused to fight the Japanese.
The Communists were not quite as bad, at least not at the start.
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