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   From: borodcar@worldnet.att.net   
      
   "Chandra P Das"  wrote   
      
   > Dale Houstman wrote:   
      
   >> Chandra P Das wrote:   
      
   >>> "... Europeans queued up [re Bush's Euro speeches] to mutter about how   
   >>> many American allies are unfree and undemocratic, and how   
   >>> contradictory it is to use guns and tanks as prime tools in that   
   >>> cause. Far better, they said, to be a “moral power” like the European   
   >>> Union, spreading freedom through softer and subtler means of influence   
   >>> and engagement—- means like, as Mr Bush heard to his horror, lifting   
   >>> the EU's embargo on arms sales to China, in return for precisely   
   >>> nothing from that communist regime on human rights, or democracy, or   
   >>> on its sabre-rattling over Taiwan. Oh, except more trade, including   
   >>> more arms sales."   
   >>>   
   >>> "While Javier Solana, the EU's foreign-policy co-ordinator, has been   
   >>> trotting out the official line that lifting the embargo is purely   
   >>> “symbolic” and that no one actually plans to sell more arms, France's   
   >>> defence minister, Michéle Alliot-Marie, said brazenly that France   
   >>> certainly would sell more arms and that to do so would be a good   
   >>> thing, for it would slow down China's own development of military   
   >>> technology."   
   >>>   
   >>> -- quoted from The Economist   
   >>>   
   >>> Almost died laughing reading this.   
      
        China had gunpowder and rockets before Alfred Nobel was born.  The   
   secret is now out.   
      
   >>> Could somebody put this defence   
   >>> minister of France in touch with a brain cell or two? How do these   
   >>> guys have the temerity to make fun of Bush's intellect?   
      
        George Bush?   
      
   >>> The only time I can tolerate the status quo is when I pause to imagine   
   >>> what the world would be like if the French government had the   
   >>> resources of the American economy and military. Waaaaaa!   
      
   >> We probably are already selling weapons to China, albeit via European   
   >> vendors and private companies. This sort of tning goes on all the time;   
   >> during WWII Ford motor company set up several factories in Germany. The   
   >> government can always do its work via private sector proxies. And so it   
   >> does.   
      
   > But purely on logic, don't you think that was a hilariously stupid thing   
   > to say for the defence minister? The reason China would buy modern arms   
   > from the west is precisely so it can steal the technology and build upon   
   > it. Doh-fucking-doh, dense minister!   
      
        And China hosts the 2008 Olympics.   
      
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