OT somewhat. China, our aircraft, delays.

From: Clint Wolff <vaxman_at_qwest.net>
Date: Mon Apr 9 18:29:10 2001

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Mike Ford wrote:

> >Not to start a flame war, but...
>

Fwooosh!

> Fighter jet and large heavy turboprop spy plane collide, and I think by
> definition the bulk of the blame has to go on the fighterjet.
>
> Want some wild speculation? How about the fighter pilot was INSTRUCTED to
> crash into the spy plane to force it to land on chinese soil.
>

China's definition of the boundary of their nation isn't the same
as ours (in the US). IIRC, they claim 200 miles of ocean, and we
claim 50 miles of ocean. I may be wrong on the numbers, but the
idea is correct.

Put the shoe on the other foot... If China was flying a plane with
the sole purpose of intercept our communications traffic within OUR
territorial waters, you can be certain a pair of US fighters would
force them out, or crash them, or probably even shoot them down.

Why do we, as Americans, feel we can do whatever we want, whenever
we want? We didn't learn our lesson when the U2 was shot down over
Russia? We didn't learn our lesson in the Bay of Pigs fiasco?

I think the blame rests solely with the idiots in Washington, DC
that sent the spy plane out to begin with...

> IMHO Greed, worldwide, is currently blinding people to a proper course of
> action with China.
>

I agree with this. It's a huge market for our goods, and a huge
pool of cheap labor to make goods for us. If you can get a room
full of children to sew shoes for pennies a day, and sell the
same shoes for $100 in the US, there are a lot of dollars
available to buy the goverment you want...

clint

PS And how 'bout Bush selling his soul to the oil & gas interests?
Does anyone other than me think the California energy crisis and the
midwest gasoline prices were deliberately set up to encourage
legislation to allow exploration in Alaska and other federally
protected wilderness areas?
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 18:29:10 BST