HisSelf

I saw the CBC documentary and I believe it is true. The CBC has beeen an honest reporter on China for many years. Don't forget that we are the country that would talk to you even after Tiananmen Square; the CBC is a source many here trust, and with good reason. You have capitalism. That's the easy part. Can you handle free speech? Welcome to democracy. It's a wonderful pain in the ass.

I saw an interview the other night with one of the many political pundits we see so often on television. He said McCain's view that the US should stay in Iraq is delusional and that this election is all about the wish of the US electorate to put the Bush/Cheney years behind them and get out of Iraq ASAP. I think the guy was right. Look at the cost. The massive debt. The US dollar. The decline of the economy. The home affairs disasters (N'awlins). The loss of US credibility on the world stage. McCain hasn't got a chance. First of all, died-in-the-wool Conservatives do not like him. Republicans are flocking not to him, but away from anything that might look like a burning Bush, and they are doing so in record numbers. Romney was his biggest threat and he is outta there. Read the entrails. Americans, even Republicans, are not gonna vote for the same old same old. McCain's pro-Iraq policy is just more of the same old. The US has lost the Middle East, and the Republican Party did it, big time. A foreign policy disaster on the same scale as "Peace In Our Time". The difference is that the war is over and the US has lost. They will finally have to surrender the Middle East to the people who live there. And what really kills me, personally you understand, is that after decades of ignoring Africa, the US now wants to take on China there. Go home George. Go Hunting with Dick. Buy your oil and metal from us. Don't ask for water.