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Gary Childress
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Check Mate?

Post by Gary Childress »

Looks like China's move. And no matter what, if they take Taiwan, then it's theirs. I don't see where our country has a leg to stand on to prevent them. China is clearly going to go for what it wants. What do we do, create a meatgrinder for everyone involved over there? Risk nuclear armageddon and drag the whole world into the post-apocalypse? China has been biding its time lying low while we're running all over the friggen world creating enemies and pissing people off, thinking we were doing the "right" thing, or at least that's what our feeble brains were told. Quite frankly, we deserve what we got. It's a sad testament for an American to say but the moral deck is stacked against us. Karma has spoken and the heavens have opened up with the verdict of God, or the gods, perhaps. Will America yet learn that preemptive wars will crumble empires?

What went wrong? Does it even matter? Life is a precious thing and the preservation of it should be paramount above all else. It is what it is. Life goes on or else it doesn't. The latter prospect is unthinkable for any wise or rational person. So the former is best pursued. We will live on, granted not the same as we were. But perhaps we don't need a global military machine. China has found a way to provide the world's consumer gadgets where we have only been providers of the world's weapons. What could be more sinister?

So long as life goes on, everyone is fine.

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