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demoleft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 03:11 AM
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China warns US over proposed arms sales to Taiwan
Source: bbc

China has expressed its anger over a proposed US weapons sale to Taiwan worth $6.4bn (£4bn), which includes helicopters and defensive missiles.

Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister He Yafei said the move would have a "serious negative impact" on co-operation between the US and China.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8488765.stm
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 03:16 AM
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1. ....And now we all get to observe what being owned by the Chinese
is going to be like......
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 05:03 AM
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2. China can pound sand.
They just don't like the possibility of receiving poisonous amounts of lead.
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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 06:48 AM
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3. China suspends U.S. military visits after Taiwan arms deal
Washington (CNN) -- China said Saturday it had suspended military exchanges with the United States over Washington's $6.4-billion arms deal with Taiwan, the territory that Beijing claims as its own.

China's Defense Ministry said the decision to halt visits between the Chinese and U.S. armed forces was made "in consideration of the serious harm and impacts on Sino-U.S. military relations" brought about by the arms deal, according to a report on the state-run Xinhua news agency.

Xinhua did not immediately provide further details on the visits.

"China will make further judgments as appropriate," the agency reported.

China had already complained to the United States about the deal, announced Friday by the Obama administration.

more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/30/taiwan.arms/
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Blandocyte Donating Member (830 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 07:09 AM
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4. Eff them
Don't they know that any any good arms supplier supplies both sides? How do they expect us to profit from hatred and misery if we sell only to them?
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 05:24 PM
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22. We aren't China's main source of weapons...far from it
By the way, the "weapons" Taiwan is buying are almost purely defensive in nature. Patriot missiles to shoot down incoming aircraft or ballistic weapons. Helicopters that ferry troops around, but don't have the range to go much beyond their island. Communications equipment to help them talk to one another in case the PRC makes good on its threat to take the island by force...

China isn't pissed because this threatens them. They are pissed because it will only make it harder for them to invade Taiwan if they ever decided to go that route.
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Gecko6400 Donating Member (114 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 08:32 AM
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5. Arms Sales to Iran
Seems we never say much about all of China's arms sales to Iran.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 09:05 AM
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9. Oh
Edited on Sat Jan-30-10 09:05 AM by dipsydoodle
Presumably you have accurate links to the subject.
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 01:21 AM
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26. Come on, it's not like it's a secret
Edited on Sun Jan-31-10 01:24 AM by psychopomp
http://www.nti.org/db/china/miranpos.htm

New Developments

Iran and North Korea reportedly worked together to improve the accuracy of the Chinese C-802, an anti-ship cruise missile with a range of 80 miles that Iran bought from China from the mid-1990s.8 Tehran is believed to have taken delivery of about 150 C-802 missiles. China suspended the C-802 sale under US pressure. In another development, The Washington Times reported that China signed a $11-million contract with Iran to upgrade the latter's FL-10 anti-ship missile.9 The US government's response at the time was cautious and officials voiced concern. However, both the US and Chinese officials agreed that the FL-10 export did not constitute a breach of China's 1997 pledge not to export cruise missiles to Iran since that pledge covers exports of C-801 and C-802 missiles only.
/snip

The US in fact, does say quite a bit about Chinese arms sales to Iran and has enjoyed some success in reducing the Chinese export of missile technology to Iran of late. That will probably not long be the case, however...
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 01:26 AM
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27. Too little, too late
The Iranians already have significant technologies WRT missiles.
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 05:22 PM
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21. Bit of a difference...
Taiwan is looking to defend itself from very real threats of military takeover by the PRC. Iran likes to buy weapons to intimidate its regional neighbors. A bit of a difference.
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psychopomp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 08:44 AM
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6. With as much US military intellectual property they have stolen
one would think that they would have more than enough to keep their own arms producers busy for the next decade. They are working on sophisticated UAV tech, stealth tech and a 5th-generation fighter. I wonder where they got all that from?

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Pavulon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 08:51 AM
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7. Poor china, lost a sale.
we own them. They have so much debt if we have any economic problem they are quite fucked.
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Arctic Dave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 06:46 PM
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23. That is quite the logic. They own so much of our debt that if we go belly up,
they go belly up also? Is that like killing the person next to you by shooting the bullet through your head first?
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Tim01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 08:55 AM
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8. They make a lot of noise. nt
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 09:24 AM
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10. Eject their Embassy, seal off our Western ports and let them rot. nt
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ShamelessHussy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 09:27 AM
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11. We can always just ramp up our NUKE program if they get too jumpy
:nuke:

/ sarcasm
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:23 AM
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12. Tell them to quiet the hell down
or we'll crash our own economy again and they'll lose all their money.

Economic mutually assured destruction.
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:52 AM
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13. I'm with China on this one
Taiwan belongs to them. How would we like it if they sold missiles to Cuba? And hey, we can't win the two wars that Bush started, how could we ever defeat China?
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damyank913 Donating Member (595 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:07 AM
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14. This is the reason China's building a navy...
Edited on Sat Jan-30-10 11:08 AM by damyank913
They aims to get Taiwan back.
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:16 PM
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15. You'd think that either the immigrant or the indigenous
population would have a say in this.

Rather like saying, "Kosovo belongs Serbia." Or "Tibet belongs to China." Or perhaps, "Haiti belongs to France."

Or even, "Korea belongs to Japan."

Ah, how to balance the historical demands of empire, colonialism and jingoism against the current self-determination and human rights?
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 10:33 AM
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29. Yes, interesting how people will say "Free Tibet" but turn their back on Taiwan
The Taiwanese people have little interest in becoming part of mainland China's single-party dictatorship.
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hack89 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:19 PM
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16. So the people of Taiwan have no say in the matter?
do you think Taiwan will remain a democracy after China takes over?
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christx30 Donating Member (774 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:41 PM
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44. The difference is
that Cuba isn't trying to gain independence from us.
Taiwan has been trying to get free of China since 1949 when the POC decided that it owned Taiwan after the Republic of China fled there after the Chinese civil war. China loves to decide it owns territory, and sends the military in to back up its claims (see Tibet).
Would you be ok with seeing China invade Taiwan and take it over? What about the people there that don't want to part of China? They should just get over it and be one of the people that have every aspect of their lives controlled by China? Would they be subject to the one child policy? Would they be forced to kill their baby girls the way that the people on the mainland do?
"Taiwan belongs to them"... I don't think it does. I am very much in favor of Taiwanese Independence. I'm also in favor of Tibet being free.
What would you do if China just decided that the United States belonged to them, for some archaic reason (China's claims that it owns Tibet go back to 1271) but the people that live in that are do not want China there.
In short, let the people living there decide what they want. And let them have the tools to defend themselves from what they see as outside aggression.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:21 PM
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Sultana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:29 PM
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19. -100000000000000000000
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Sultana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:27 PM
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18. Cry babies
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Flaneur Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 02:56 PM
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20. It's fun watching DU get all uber-nationalistic.
It's all on the play ground level: STFU China!
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 10:39 PM
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24. This is really what we should be doing.... selling weapons/arms all over the world????!!!!
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-30-10 11:11 PM
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25. In defense, these weapons are primarily defensive in nature...
You can't really attack anyone with UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, PAC-3 missile batteries and comm gear...from an island. All that stuff is to serve as a deterrent against the PLA. China is only pissed because this only makes it more difficult for them if they choose to take Taiwan by force.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 12:14 PM
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30. If you notice, the military has a corporate itch to use whatever is produced . ..
probably much more stuff than we're aware of from the reports on damage done

to human from Panama to Iraq!

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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 07:02 PM
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31. Uh, sure...not quite sure what that point was...
Again, Taiwan signed a deal for transport helicopters, defensive anti-aircraft missiles, and comm gear. That's not a direct threat to China unless China is trying to invade Taiwan. Besides, go look at the numbers...there's absolutely no reason Taiwan has a military except for defense, because any offensive move by Taiwan would only result in them getting utterly stomped by China.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 08:34 PM
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32. Yes . . . you seem to miss a lot of points. . . what do weapons have to do with the peace ...
Edited on Sun Jan-31-10 08:34 PM by defendandprotect
of the world?

Do you know how long "American" elites have been in China, investing and

selling arms?

If you ever get around to wondering why Israel is so deeply involved in war mongering,

and full scale war against Palestine, remember that Nixon armed right wing religiously

fanatical Israel, shutting out peace-loving Israelis.

Wonder what connections there might be between US/CIA creating the Taliban/Al Qaeda and

using them to "bait" the Russians into Afghanistan . . . "in hopes of giving them a

Vietnam-type experience" -- ???

And, again, we have weapons which we test when we go to war -- the effects of those

secret weapons have been seen in Panama and Iraq.

When weapons are stockpiled, shelved and not re-ordered, the MIC gets edgy.

When weapons/bombs are untested, they also get edgy.

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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 09:48 PM
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34. Sigh...whatever...helicopters and anti-aircraft missiles aren't there to start a war
You say American elites are in China selling arms...aside from a few helicopters and a smattering of other stuff, what has America sold to China that the Russians and French haven't already?

Are you really trying to say the US "baited" Russia into Afghanistan? No, the US/CIA didn't "create" the Taliban to bait Russia into Afghanistan...the Taliban didn't exist until after the USSR left.

And no, we don't start wars to "test" weapons. We have plenty of range space to test weapons. We knew our weaponry worked fine when Panama and other wars began. It's the media that spins up that nonsense that we "tested" the stealth fighter and other weapon systems in Panama and Iraq.

Ever read about a full history of Israel/Palestine/Judea? I have...a very long and tedious history of the region. It's been full of back-and-forth struggles of power since human civilization. People don't realize this, but the Israeli-Palestinian struggle dates back to Old Testament times. The region gained it's "Palestine" name after the second revolt against the Romans when the area was widely recognized as Judea. The Roman emperor was so infuriated he ordered all references to Judea to be disposed of, and renamed it Philistina...an insult to the Jews since the Philistines were their ancient enemy (ie, the story of David and Goliath...Goliath is often viewed by historians as a pseudonym for the Philistine army). Thus over the years Philistina became known as Palestine. The non-Jewish inhabitants converted to Islam. Modern-day Palestinians, which are often thought of as Moslem sub-culture of arabian descent, are actually more related to non-Jewish peoples that inhabited that area for years, mixed with some arab bedouins that were brought in by the Romans to blunt the Jewish population (and many Jews were dispersed throughout the empire in an effort to reduce their troublesome nationalism). Either way you look at it, it's a very long intwined history that's not simply going to be solved by blaming one side or the other.

Back to the topic at hand...Taiwan has an interest in deterring China. Taiwan and the US aren't the "war mongers" here. China has repeatedly stated that they continue to consider military action to take Taiwan. China is not interested in even a semi-autonomous Taiwan...they despise the Taiwanese political system where freedoms like free speech and multiple parties are allowed.

Consider it this way...say Vermont decides it wants to break with the US because the US no longer represents their values. The US states that it is seriously considering taking the state back by force. Vermont buys anti-aircraft missiles and helicopters...are they suddenly the war mongers?
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 12:32 AM
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36. Double sigh . . . Ever hear of Bell Helicopter and Vietnam?
Edited on Mon Feb-01-10 12:36 AM by defendandprotect
Go back to the time of Bush/Ambassador to China . . .

and long before that -- Eagleburger/Kissinger arming China --

Again, what is the relationship of weapons production to peace in the world?


Are you really trying to say the US "baited" Russia into Afghanistan? No, the US/CIA didn't "create" the Taliban to bait Russia into Afghanistan...the Taliban didn't exist until after the USSR left.

Am I trying to say . . . ? Are you serious?

See bottom of the page -- This interview has been out there for probably close to 4-5 years

now -- it's also in his book! Not only that, he told the story to O'Reilly on his show --

and just about everywhere else!!

No one said that we "start" wars to test weapons . . . .

And no, we don't start wars to "test" weapons. We have plenty of range space to test weapons. We knew our weaponry worked fine when Panama and other wars began. It's the media that spins up that nonsense that we "tested" the stealth fighter and other weapon systems in Panama and Iraq.

What I said was that there is evidence in both the attack on Panama and the war in Iraq that

we have tested weapons there -- under cover of war. It's an opportunity the MIC uses.


Re Israel -- Palestine . . . what I related to you has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with the

historical strugge in the ME. It does, however, relate to how right wing goverment has

always -- and continues -- to use religion and religious fanatics in co-opting and taking

over nations.

Nixon was anti-semitic as the tapes clearly show. Many recognized that -- many were worried

whether he would abandon Israel. Nixon, rather, found a way to appear to be aiding Israel

while actually co-opting Israel as our foothold in the ME. Again, Nixon armed right wing

religiously fundamentalist Israelis -- which disappeared peace-loving Israelis. That foothold

has provided a way for the US to keep the ME in turmoil -- and to enlarge on that turmoil!


Anyone who manufactures or sells arms is a warmonger --

Yeah -- I'd like to see Vermont try to buy weapons to compete with the US. Where do you

go for the latest nukes -- Walmart!

Wake up!!!

----------------------


Here's the story on how we created the Taliban/Al Qaeda via ISI-Pakistan and funded

it up until 9/11 --

Also keep in mind that Al Qaeda was an older organization picked up by the Nazis and

turned over to our CIA at the end of WWII.



Here's the story --

the second part goes into the details of how US created the VIOLENT Islamic writings/

textbooks and shipped them into the Middle East to create a more VIOLENT Islamic emergence.


--------------

REQUOTED FROM MY JOURNAL --

FIRST PART OF THIS DEALS WITH HOW US/CIA CREATED TALIBAN AND AL QAEDA . . .
TO BAIT RUSSIANS INTO AFGHANISTAN . . .!!!


SECOND PART DEALS WITH THE TEXTBOOKS --



The CIA's Intervention in Afghanistan
Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski,
President Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser

Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998

Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs <"From the Shadows">, that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

B: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?

Q: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Q: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

http://www.takeoverworld.info/brzezinski_i... ...



---------------------------------------------------

SECOND PART --


The US spent $100's of millions shooting down Soviet helicopters yet didn't spend a penny helping Afghanis rebuild their infrastructure and institutions.

They also spent millions producing jihad preaching, fundamentalist textbooks and shipping them off to Afghanistan. These were the same text books the Western media discussed in shocked tones and told their audiences were used by fundamentalist teachers to brainwash their charges and to inculcate in young Afghanis a jihad mindset, hatred of foreigners and non-Muslims etc.


Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal?

Or perhaps I should say, "Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal that's waiting to happen?"

Because it has been almost unreported in the Western media that the US government shipped, and continues to ship, millions of Islamist textbooks into Afghanistan.

Only one English-speaking newspaper we could find has investigated this issue: the Washington Post. The story appeared March 23rd.

Washington Post investigators report that during the past twenty years the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.

"The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books..." -- Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)

According to the Post the U.S. is now "...wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism."

So the books made up the core curriculum in Afghan schools. And what were the unintended consequences? The Post reports that according to unnamed officials the schoolbooks "steeped a generation in violence."

How could this result have been unintended? Did they expect that giving fundamentalist schoolbooks to schoolchildren would make them moderate Muslims?

Nobody with normal intelligence could expect to distribute millions of violent Islamist schoolbooks without influencing school children towards violent Islamism. Therefore one would assume that the unnamed US officials who, we are told, are distressed at these "unintended consequences" must previously have been unaware of the Islamist content of the schoolbooks.

But surely someone was aware. The US government can't write, edit, print and ship millions of violent, Muslim fundamentalist primers into Afghanistan without high officials in the US government approving those primers.

http://www.tenc.net/articles/jared/jihad.h...





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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 12:50 AM
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37. The US didn't "create" the Mujahadeen...
They were fighting the Soviets from day one, well before the US got involved. They were there before the Soviets were there. You just think these Islamic fighters suddenly grew off trees once the CIA arrived? The Taliban formed in the power vacuum following the Soviet withdrawal. They weren't formed by the CIA.

Anybody selling weapons is a warmonger? Really? So if a really belligerent nation next door threatens to attack you, and you buy something to deter them from doing so, is the person who sold that to you a "warmonger"?

I've seen you in the Hugo threads, running to his defense. He's stocking up on lots of weapons (many with offensive capabilities) yet I haven't seen you call him out on his "warmongering"...rather you run to his defense, so long as it's against the US.

Taiwan has every right to buy equipment to deter China from invading and taking the island by force. Period.

I could care less about Israel/Kissinger/Bell Helicopter/whatever other side issue you want to bring up. Taiwan has a real threat to its existence as a democratic nation...they can defend that how they see fit. I could care less if they buy American equipment, Russian equipment or French-made stuff. It's up to them.
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 08:53 PM
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38. You didn't mention . . .
Edited on Mon Feb-01-10 08:54 PM by defendandprotect
you don't bother reading . . .

or is it a problem with comprehension?


Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:02 PM
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39. Aiding the mujahadeen isn't "creating the Taliban"
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:21 PM
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40. Keep backtracking and finally you'll get the point!!
Take a look at the internet -- I don't have time to spoon feed you --

US?CIA created the Talian/Al Qaeda thru ISI-Pakistan -- !!

AND WE FINANCED IT RIGHT UP TO 9/11 . . . !!

Wake up!

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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:35 PM
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43. Oh bruther...no, I'm sorry I'm not going to buy the idea that the US created the Taliban
Ever hear the phrase "don't believe everything you read on the internet?"
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 01:05 PM
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45. Ever hear the phrase . . .
"Nothing taught in schools is created in schools" . . .

whether language or poetry, history nor journalism --

and neither is everything you read on the internet something that is untrue.

Understanding the propaganda of white male history --

leads one to question that "Columbus discovered America," for instance --

though you will find that all over the internet.

Failing to understand what the Carter administration did "officially" and what it

did in "secret" is the difference between reality and fantasy.

Meanwhile, I will leave you to the kindness of strangers --

You're on "ignore."

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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-02-10 01:52 PM
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46. It doesn't surprise me you'd put someone that was disagreeing with you on ignore
I know defendandprotect isn't probably reading this, but I'll put it out there for everyone else...

The "ignore" function is primarily there to weed out people who are very rude, etc. But, you can also use it to eliminate posts from people you don't agree with. Hey, it's a free country, do what you want...but I think it's a pretty cowardly thing to ignore someone just because they won't agree to your points.

Having a real debate/discussion requires a level of intellectual honesty and the ability to face other points of view. Without that ability you're simply an intellectual coward.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:25 PM
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41. We especially don't start wars to "test" the PAC-3
It's been extensively tested already and is a proven defensive missile.
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chrisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 09:22 AM
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28. I can't believe people are defending China on this.
It's bad enough when we try to tell Cuba what to do. It's like another poster said: Do you really think China wants to bring Democracy to Taiwan?
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unkachuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 09:37 PM
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33. why....
....are we provoking the Chinese while they hold a trillion dollars worth of our debt?....does anyone actually believe that we would ever go to war with China over Taiwan?....it's a province of China....

....maybe China should sell Texas or California 6.4 billion dollars worth of helicopters and defensive missiles so they will be prepared when they secede from the Union....
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PacerLJ35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-31-10 09:50 PM
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35. Tibet is a province of China too, right?
If a "province" or other autonomous region has such a large disparity in values from the rest of the country, I think they should be allowed to form their own country...just like Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor and others. The Taiwanese society and government is 180 degrees out from mainland China.
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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-01-10 10:26 PM
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42. China doesn't need to sell Texas missiles
Those PAC-3 missiles sold to Taiwan are mostly made in Texas.
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