"But the world isn't like that."

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- vze422fs at verizon.net wrote:
Is there are more repressive regime on earth than the
> People's
> Republic of China? Do they threaten their neighbors? Do they possess
> weapons
> of mass destruction? Do they kill dissenters and jail foreign
> nationals who
> speak out?

Is there anything anyone can possibly *do* about it, and if they could,
should they try? And aren't they, come to think of it? Trying?

> Do they crank out Nikes at slave labor rates? 

Alas yes. Only buy handmade English shoes. I recommend Churches. They
fit great and last damn near forever if you care for them properly.
Make floppies for your kids out of old tires.

> Would they be
> harder to roll over than Iraq? Have the Republicans been sucking up
> to this
> "most favored nation"? Saddam can't hold a candle to the Chinese for
> rampant
> assholery, but they will do business. There is no impending (excuse
> me,
> ongoing) invasion of China

Because little if anything can be done in a large case, does that mean
one should do nothing in all cases? Surely you do not subscribe to such
logic. Add your light to the sum of light, no?? In foreign policy I
think we ought to do good, or do nothing. It is not always easy to know
what the "good" is, and doing nothing is not always equivalent to doing
good.

It is a shame I loath the GOP so. It makes it ever more difficult to
think clearly. Bush et al cloud my vision. Visceral dislike of both
major parties, or of the US in toto, must make it harder still. I can't
wait for another opportunity to vote, and I hope we can kick the
bastards out.

Mark
(Whose next automobile will be a gas-electric hybrid. We do what we
can... A bas big oil! A bas the M-I.C.!)

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