| Well then let's just change the WHOLE message of the Olympics from one of international cooperation to one of subservience to China.
If the Chinese don't want freedom (and the VAST MAJORITY of them outside of the leadership do) then fine. But you don't get to HOST the Olympic games and FOIST your totalitarian ways on the REST of the world that wants to participate in the Olympics. Even the NAZIS and the COMMUNISTS in the Soviet Union understood this.
As for war with China. They do have an advantage in sheer numbers. We HAVE HAD an advantage in technology. Our so-called leaders are selling the Chicoms (the term refers to the leadership of China not the rank and file citizens) our tech as fast as they can so that advantage is disappearing and at the current level of China's military growth will be GONE FOREVER in a relatively short time.
So Lerxt are you suggesting that we wait until we have NO LEVERAGE, NO ADVANTAGE whatsoever and then try to "talk" the Chicoms out of being such SAVAGES?
Can you find me EVEN one example from history where APPEASEMENT has worked?
Finally, I am not so worried about "pissing off" the Chinese. We wouldn't fight a ground war against 1 billion people. It would be nuclear and basically we have the SAME deterrence (MAD) that held the Soviet Union in check for 50 years. In other words the Chicoms just like any other normal humans don't want to reach 10,000 degrees in less than one second.
Now ten to twenty years from now when they have their fleets of ICBM's (thank you Bill Clinton) then that MAD comes back to bite us on the ass but right now they could launch a few nukes and a few might even reach Los Angelos but the US would survive. I am not advocating a nuclear attack on China but I am pointing out that right now we DO have that ability and therefore RIGHT NOW is when we need to be trying to change China. What we don't need is to be so afraid that they might get angry that we wait twenty years when we WON'T have that ability!!!! |