-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Sorry? For what? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com Don't get me wrong. I'm delighted that 24 U.S. service people are apparently on their way home after being held hostage for a week in China. But I'm not happy about the cost. I'm not happy about the process. And I'm not happy with the way U.S. officials caved in to the demands of the extortionist tyrants in Beijing. Frankly, it's a disgrace that the Bush administration apologized. No matter how you slice it, we gave China just what it demanded. They wanted the U.S. to say it was sorry and we did -- twice! We apologized for the death of the Chinese airman who tried to force down the unarmed U.S. surveillance plane, and we apologized for making an emergency landing on Chinese territory without permission. That's the disgrace. If Clinton were in the White House, the whole matter couldn't have been handled much worse. It's not surprising. Though some names have changed in key positions with the State Department and among national security advisers, the same old thinking prevails. What China wants, China gets. Never mind that China is run by a hostile, murderous, totalitarian regime that oppresses its own people and threatens its neighbors -- there's money to be made, markets to exploit, trade to increase. No one wants to go to war with China. But coddling bellicose regimes always makes war more likely, not less. And that's what we did. The U.S. did not threaten China with trade sanctions. The U.S. did not threaten to break diplomatic relations with Beijing. The U.S. did not threaten to seize Chinese assets. It did not use the naked aggression by China to awaken the world to the threat Beijing poses to the Taiwanese and other freedom-loving people in Asia. No. We apologized. We coddled. We made excuses. We enabled. What that means is China will be encouraged to take another action like this on another day -- inevitably, that will be the result of U.S. mishandling of the crisis. Bush bungled it -- his first foreign policy crisis, pure and simple. I know many will not agree with me. Some say we should avoid confrontation at all costs. Some would like the U.S. to cease all surveillance flights -- to pretend that the world is actually a safe place. It is not. Others are moral relativists when it comes to foreign policy -- one standard for the weak and another for the strong. Yet others can never recognize mistakes by leaders they helped elect. But this crisis is a bad omen for the Bush administration. Once those U.S. service people are out of China, the U.S. should renounce its weak-kneed apology and promise a tough response to China's aggression. Beijing needs to be punished. If, indeed, as a result of this aggression by China, the U.S. political establishment wakes up from its daze over the long-term threat Beijing poses, this incident can yet be redeemed. But if we resume normal relations with China as if nothing happened, we will have missed yet another opportunity to gird ourselves for an inevitable future conflict with the world's largest nation. I'm sick of seeing the U.S. bomb people in Yugoslavia who are no threat to us. I'm sick of seeing the U.S. deploy military forces all around the world in places that have no strategic value to us. I'm sick of seeing the U.S. Defense Department used like a global welfare agency. But I'm sicker still of seeing us act like cowards in the face of naked aggression against our country and our people -- just because those attacking are bigger and tougher. I don't want to see the U.S. serve as the world's policeman. But we ought to be able to defend ourselves when we're attacked without provocation. A country unable to make such distinctions doesn't deserve to be the world's sole superpower and won't be for very long. The American people now need to send a message to their "leaders" in Washington. Let them know that we will not soon forget the attack on the U.S. plane -- one that had the potential for ending in much greater tragedy. We don't want to be a buyers' market for slave goods manufactured in an Asian hellhole -- no matter how many people they might oppress. And we don't say we're sorry for things we didn't do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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