[lit-ideas] Re: A Possibly Very Good Idea

  • From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:11:08 +0100

>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.
>
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