Despite how the government in China is, the people of China love America and the American people. Did you hear the reception the US team received the night of the opening ceremonies?

Maybe, I rather doubt that the greater numbers of people know much about us at all. Those crowds are always hand selected as with the North Korean audience for one of our orchestras.

But when push comes to shove the Han will stand behind their leaders, they always do. Too bad my uncle Gene is gone. He spent 14 months and days in a ChiCom prison camp; he could tell us all about the Chinese people, oh yea. No cousins from Uncle Gene, Chinese again.

They may or may not love us, but dollars to donuts we fight them again. Did you know that almost all the German officers that invaded Norway in 1940 spoke Norweagin? During the First World War Norway took in tens of thousands of German youths so they would not go hungry during the blockade.

Individual acts of kindness are wonderful; but we generally rally in the face of foreign threats. So do the Han.

China doesn’t directly support international terrorism.

No, but they do support the countries that do.

There’s hope for the world when AN and LGM find something to agree on.

China doesn’t directly support international terrorism.

No, but they do support the countries that do. A goodly portion of the weapons that Iran, Sudan and Zimbabwe use and export are ChiCom. They did support the Shinning Path in Peru and continue to support the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists).

No – but given my druthers between the communist Chinese and the jihadists who are instructed to lie, I’d rather believe the communists.

I can not think of any scenario where I would believe either the ChiComs or the mohammedans.
jihadists who are instructed to lie? I am sure they are, but the ChiComs have been known to say things that are not true from time to time. Besides, there are lots of ChiComs, they can lose a few.

To be quite honest ChiComs and mohammedans killing each other is a good thing–it takes some pressure off us. Hopefully it will delay the war between China and everybody else. China and Russia are on the march and looking to gain old and new glories. We never recovered from the military downsizing of the Clinton years, our military sciences are full of ChiCom spys and neither the Democrats or Republicans are willing to address the issue-we don’t want to stereotype do we?

ANYTHING that keeps the ChiComs focus off us is a good thing. Today Russia invaded Georgia proper. Oh yea, we need to keep the ChiComs and Russians occupied elsewhere. Eternal President of (North) Korea Kim Il-sung must be enjoying himself at the moment. We dealt with mohammedans and got bit in the butt, we played ping pong with the ChiComs for cheap toys and got bit in the butt, we defended Europe for sixty years and it is time to come home. South Korea needs to take care of herself. Japan is a big industrialized country, let her build the damn bomb and pull our people out of there.

Isn’t it time we stopped this non sense? We need a military capable of defending THIS continent and the hell with the rest. Sell low tech weapons to everybody and enjoy the action.

Is it clear that the Muslims Islamists are more terrorist than the Chinese who control them by force? This is a violent military dictatorship we’re talking about.

Yes, it is because China doesn’t directly support international terrorism. They only control what can be done within their borders, in accordance with the UN Charter that certain liberals one day hope will rule all the world.

Now, I think the Chinese are brutal, but if you’re going to operate the UN standard in Iraq, do it fairly everywhere else, or subscribe to a higher system of values (ie Christianity).

Do you believe everything Chinese officials say?

No – but given my druthers between the communist Chinese and the jihadists who are instructed to lie, I’d rather believe the communists. The Chinese are the focus of the world right now, and while most media outlets will whitewash their abysmal record, they will want to do anything to keep a good image when the Olympics are going on. They have more to lose by not telling the truth in this matter…

Funny that you’re willing to give even jihadists a pass.

I hope the Chicoms just get pissed & screw the pooch.

Come again. Are you hoping for genocidal ethnic cleansing or just a little zoophilia?

SpeakEasy said:
Careful PapLouie, your hinge is loose. I think the fact that he threw himself off a tower indicates a mentally unstable person rather than a political activist.

Sorry, I wasn’t aware that a political activist was incapable of becoming unstable. But, even so, why couldn’t a “mentally unstable person” target Americans or other foreigners? Unstable Arabs target Jews all the time. Out of billions of Chinese, this guy just happens to pick Americans? The odds of that don’t make you scratch your head a little?

Suicide bombers only blow themselves up in the act of killing, not afterward.

First of all, I didn’t call him a suicide bomber. Second, have you ever tried to blow yourself up with a knife? Maybe he preferred death to a Chinese prison.

Murder/suicides happen all the time, but usually the victim is someone or some group they have a grudge against. I’m just questioning some of the statements by the Embassy, especially the assumption that it was all a random act. It might have been, but the logic leading to that conclusion is suspect.

To paraphrase a line from the movie Chinatown:
“…easy, take it easy Jake, its Chinatown….”

Translation: You won’t be able to figure it out; you won’t be able to get the facts or the truth. They are Muslims, after all.

and oh yes the Chicoms are the ones in a unique position to do so.