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SSG Warren Swan
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No but with the other miscues going on, I can see why it hasn't, but why it should. The problem with this is, sometimes, certain stories shouldn't be politicized...maybe this is one of them. Glad she's safe, pissed her family isn't, but sure her husband wouldn't want it any other way.
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I have a friend of mine who used to be a foreign area officer in the Thai Embassy in the eighties and China is again putting pressure on the Thai government to help them out and this case to lie and say that these Chinese were brainwashed by influences of South Korea or the pro-democracy zealots in Hong Kong period China is a communist and like to do business but they don't give a crap about their own people.
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SSG Warren Swan
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" putting pressure on the Thai government to help them out and this case to lie and say that these Chinese were brainwashed by influences of South Korea or the pro-democracy zealots in Hong Kong"....do they know how stupid that sounds? Or do they care? I agree human rights isn't high on their lists of GAF items.
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SSG Warren Swan - rember the Chinese are paranoid and worried they prefer to have a function North Korea then to have of a North Korea falling apart and become South Korea and Democratic the Communist Chinese are still wing nuts look at Faith and harvest prisoners that they kill for organs to sell abroad
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PO3 John Wagner
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I think China wants to get involved in the world economy and promote more products. As it stands nobody cares about most things from China but would you buy a Chinese car or television... or more to the point..how hard is it to crap on any marketing campaign to promote higher end products when all the detractors ..or the competition..need to do to crap on their marketing efforts is point out what a bunch of unlovable shitheads they are? The world will indeed be better off if all the large economies are wealthier . Citizens of wealthier countries are happier and more productive. The idiots on the left keep trying to reinvent the wheel with the unending track record of poverty and destruction created by socialism. Basic fact. Industrialized commercially active nations in the world market don't make war on each other. The left figures leveling the playing field with world poverty is an admirable goal.
No wonder they call them Libtards. More wealth creates more wealth. Bringing living standards up across the board will work. Tourism and travel create a phenomenon know as "The peace hostage principle." When the children and families of the wealthy and powerful of all nations are traveling around the world, attending school, as well as spreading culture.. only then can we eventually become a reasonably United planet. Is that not after all what is actually necessary for human survival? Our technological advances have made us more susceptible than ever to social, econo, and lifestyle destruction by the destruction of our electronic networks. It is actually quite possible in our lifetimes that we may see a world in which,large scale warfare becomes absolutely out of the question. Mutually assured economic destruction is a uniting force towards avoiding just that. Who believes that at the end of the day that anyone in general just wants to live in peace ? If we are going to explore and colonize our own solar system it will need to be a joint effort which is relatively free of destructive and impoverishing influences. How much sooner could we reach for the stars if the wealth basically squandered on the worlds militaries was used to further our reach into the solar system?
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SSG Michael Eastes
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Good stories. I wonder why our media doesn't report them?
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