>you are strangely silent about the Chinese. Why the > selective condemnation? we have, Eric, been here many times before. It is not required, nor should it be, that a critic of the UK/UK add to every post "and of course I also attack Stalin/the Chinese/the Burmese junta/etc." though perhaps I should write, and macro, such a disclaimer Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:01 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: A Possibly Very Good Idea > Joerg wrote: those mongol neocons used their vessels for the > next fit of demockercy proliferation, trying to clear shinto > fascist roguish Japan of WMDs, when Der Weltgeist finally > blew his breath and they were scattered - sic semper > tyrannis, eh? - and yes, it's always a good idea to send > some remedy along with the pest. > > > I'm not sure what you are breaking silence about, Joerg, > though I'm glad to hear from such an erudite silent critic. > > Surely you are aware that tropical diseases are spreading > into the subtropics and temperate climates? > > Surely you are not writing to support the proliferation of > the various tropical parasitic and neoplastic diseases? You > are surely not a friend of hanta virus, Chagas Disease, > malaria, Filariasis, Dengue fever, Cutaneous Larva Migrans, > or Leishmaniasis--just to name a few? > > As for pests--pure pests who do things dirty and off the > books--you are strangely silent about the Chinese. Why the > selective condemnation? The Chinese are all over Africa, for > example, and confine themselves to purely mercantilist > relations with their host countries. No hospital ships in > their imagined Mongol future....hell, not even token > gestures to environmental compliance...just minimal > standards for return on investment and brutality when need > be and never reported. > > --------------------------------------------------------------- --- > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.9/417 - Release Date: 11/08/2006 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html