I have forgotten the name of the computer strategy-based game now, but it was a game in which players were tasked with building one of the great Empires in history. One had to build an Empire, maintain a defense and be careful not to share technological advances with potential adversaries. I was never very good at it because I was always trying to strike deals and compromises with other Empires, which eventually weakened me. Hey, I never said I'd make a good leader.
This reminds me of the current US relationship with China, and for that matter, the whole issue of globalization. I think that it is a fair statement to say that the US and other industrialized nations have had direct influence in the rapid emergence of China from a backwards, communist nation to a rapidly developing economic and military monster. Just a few years ago, military analysts were saying that the Chicoms did not have the ability to invade Taiwan…really? Someone better wake up and drink copious amounts of trucker’s coffee because the Chicom war machine is getting muscled up, with the inclusion of a large number of landing craft in its arsenal. The Chicoms only need landing craft for one reason…invading Taiwan.
If China invades Taiwan tomorrow, there is not much that the US could really do about it—not as long as we’re still fucking around in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Nor could the Americans levy crippling sanctions on the Chicoms because Europe would be too wishy-washy to support such a move. In fact, the Europeans would probably try to snap up all of the contracts and deals that the US would drop. Our only recourse with China is a hard-line policy. They are Chicoms, will continue to remain Chicoms, and need to be treated as the sneaky, underhanded Chicom bastards that they are. Our nukes need to be redirected towards Beijing, we need to stop buying Barbie Dolls made in China, and a clear message needs to be sent to Chinese President HU Jintao, “There can only be one.”
But the Chicoms—though perhaps our biggest threat—are not the only threat. A recent CNN article suggests that the US risks loosing its competitive edge in the high tech world, blaming the collapse on everything from the lack broadband internet connections in American households, to the inability of American student to compete with the rest of the world in the areas of mathematics and science.
We need to ask ourselves where all the developing country’s math whizes recieved their higher education. After 9/11, Caesar/President Bush did the right thing by making it tougher for foreigners to attend US Universities, now he needs to work on nurturing the vast pool of potential young American mathematicians and scientists in our own High Schools and send them on to places like MIT on full scholarships to fill the empty void left by banned foreigners.This wouldn't account for the likes of Pakistani Nuke Meister AQ Kahn, who went to Germany and Belgium for his education, but it would make it difficult none the less for developing countrys to...develope.
On top of this, the fucking NBA needs to stop importing so many damn foreign players, less we have another national debacle like what we experienced in Athens this past summer.
S.P.Q.W.
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