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Posted on 11/22/2009 10:17:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Oh, the guy is a brit. No wonder. He must really take his multi-culturism serious.
Another Euro-centric retard that knows absolutely nothing about what makes this country tick.
For every action there is an equal and opposite reac... oh wait, nevermind.
Something about sheep...
He’s full of Commie dung.
His mistake is to base his opinion on America’s decline on what Obama is doing. Obama is a weakling and hates his own country. THAT is the “decline” we are seeing, not the decline of the country!
How funny!
Learn to bow? Yeah, okay. Just like the Scottish freedom fighters did in Braveheart.
Who is this twit author?
He’s a Brit? With a name like Martin Jacques and his love of bowing and multiple mentions of humility, I was certain he was Vichy French.
Fortunately, in Barack Obama the nation has a president that possesses a rare characteristic for that office, humility.
How funny!
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You aren’t kidding!
Yeah, I’ll bow only so that they can better kiss my American a**!
China has how many hundreds of millions of people on the edge of starvation?
Severe water pollution and desertification
The impossible task of raising standards of living without allowing political freedom.
An aging population.
An entire economy based on potemkin villages.
The only way out is natinalistic fascism: look out Russia, Australia, China, India, and maybe Canada (fresh water).
NO cheers, unfortunately.
America shoiuld not kiss up to anyone..
Roger that. The Brits have caved in years ago.
Roger that. The Brits have caved in years ago.
Roger that. The Brits have caved in years ago.
There is some truth in this article with the exception of that we must learn to bow.
We have not understand China. We gambled that free enterprise would lead to democracy, and did all that we could to encourage free enterprise in China.
We saw the opportunity to exploit China’s vast labor. And we saw it as a competition to exploit that labor before other countries exploited that labor. And we did not see the risk that we were exporting our manufacturing knowledge and know how. We claimed that we were retaining the knowledge jobs even as we exported the manufacturing, but the knowledge jobs go with the manufacturing.
And we did all of this without recognizing that unless we changed China’s political culture, we were creating a super competitor that did not share our values of freedom.
And I don’t think we get it yet. We don’t seem to have a plan to deal with China. We seem to HOPE that maybe China will CHANGE, and in the mean time we embrace UNITY with China. And we risk losing ourselves in the process.
ROR
I think it would pain me too much to read the whole article . . .
some thoughts on the topics, however . . .
1. Americans . . . in a lot of respects COULD use some heavy doses of humility—particularly the whole East and Left Coasts . . . particularly the pseudo leaders, the media, the university elites . . .
2. Bowing in and of itself can be like any other thing. I’ve lived in such cultures more than 16 years . . . I was happy to bow as befit the situation. Was an honor to be so accepted into the cultures by folks who could quickly detect my genuine love for them as individuals and as a culture. Some thought I behaved more like a Chinese than some of their ‘bananas’ did. That was a flattering honor.
3. Bowing can be as superficial and perfunctory as a handshake or a hug. Anyone who think’s OThuga’s groveling bows are anything more than traitorous sell-out gamesmanship must have more than a Lowe’s stock of screws loose. .
4. It is CONCEIVABLE that bowing will become HEALTHIER than shaking hands given all the designer diseases they are intent on reducing the population of the planet with.
5. God is the only one watching who really REALLY counts. And He looks on the heart—whether it’s a handshake, a hug or a bow. Is there genuine caring, love there, or not. If it’s a manipulative, seductive, dishonest game, the reaping will be accordingly.
6. Deadly traitorousness of the kind that seems to be all OThuga knows how to walk in and display . . . will discard him like a used . . . monthly . . . sooner than he thinks.
7. Humility pays great dividends when it’s authentic, from the heart and first of all as unto The Lord.
8. Pride, arrogance goes before a fall. American is not immune to the reaping from such arrogance. I pray the traitorous “leaders” fall first and furthest . . . disintegrating to the subatomic level of bits.
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