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Subject: Re: Moving forward

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Date Posted: 08:22:10 04/12/01 Thu
In reply to: Rodney Reel 's message, "Re: Moving forward" on 10:35:52 04/03/01 Tue

Hey, I know I am late to this topic, especially now that the incident is over. Well, then again, maybe I am right on time. You guys all have interesting points and I am not going to really refute them. I agree with many of them, so I will just say kudos.

However, as a former student of foreign affairs I must make this one comment. The US was never at any point an isolated nation. We had the Monroe Doctrine yes, but that just meant that European powers could not come to our hemisphere and collect debts through force. Also, for the most part, we did stay out of European MILITARY conflicts. But we have had so many intrusions into other countries that to call ourselves isolationist would be a flat out lie. For example, we have gone to s. america so many time they stopped counting.

Also, I cannot contend with Anthony's association that this cuurent situation is another or rather continued cold world situations. It is true that in recent history, conflicts between nations are derived form government types, rather than territory or pride based issues of 200 years ago. And, it is probably also true, that this current china syndrome does come about primarily because of the old commie-dems battle. It is just that this is not at the same level the cold war fears were at. And there is a clear objective here.

The unspoken war between US-Ussr of the past threatened the existance of life on earth. This conflict threatens cheap sneaker prices at K-Mart. CHina acted strangely, but they are not dumb, they will not risk future trade problems with us over something we both take part in (spying). I think it is a maneuver for the upper hand in the upcoming Taiwan issue. For those of you unaware, W soon has to decide what weapons to sell Taiwan. CHina of course does not want them to get much. I think they will now get the best and all the numbers they wanted.

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