From:	IronRaven cyberraven@********.net
Subject:	Second Hand
Date:	Mon, 06 Sep 1999 18:03:02 -0400

At 16.44 09-06-99 -0700, you wrote:
>> I saw it- they forgot the fact that the Chinese have a lot to
loose if
>> they feel like trying.
>Such as? Well...what? Do elaborate. WHAT do they have to lose?

Left a word out- the a lot MORE to loose, speaking manpowerwise. They
have a greater population, and they can more readily place them under arms.
Also, any conflict would be fought in Asia- thier supply lines would be
shorter.
To put it bluntly, if the US -hell, the "West"- would have thier ass
handed to them in conventional conflict with the PRC, simply becuase we are
so outsized.

>Wait...200 is genius level. Hm. Don't ya mean 100? *nitpick*:>

For three guys (Prez, SecDef and the Nat. Security Advisor), it isn't too
good.

>A sane person's prayer: Let the next president, whomever that may be, KEEP
>Madeline
>Albright and the current foreign policy staff. I think they finally got it
right, on

Staff, for the most part, yes. The vacume brain they take thier orders
from is the problem. Unfortunately, none of next year's canidates have
much int he way of foreign experince, unless Bush calls his dad.

>Never underestimate human stupidity.

Stupidity is never an accident.


Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat in the face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in
your philosophy."