mbs: who exactly is 'we'? what are the bad 'worker characteristics'?
> And there is the problem that today the Bush NSC has a very different
> grand strategy: maximize tension with China in the interest of
> producing a "yellow scare", rally America behind Republicans who can
> promise to keep America safe in a dangerous world, and keep the
> Chinese as poor and barefoot as possible for as long as possible.. . .
>
> Yet another example of how perceptive Ralph "not a dime's worth of
> difference between Democrats and Republicans" Nader is.
> Brad DeLong
mbs: this puts quite a burden of perception on ol Ralph. I haven't seen this analysis anywhere. Who has published it?
If the Bushies wanted to maximize tension with China, why didn't they make the most of the *attack* on 'our' spy plane? Compare the Repugs response to the Korean KAL thingy. Why don't they oppose having the Olympics in the PRC? Why don't they move to put the ROC in the UN? Why are they pretending they have joint security interests in re: Islamic fundamentalism? I've forgotten, did Bush meet with the Dalai Lama? etc. etc. etc.
Seems to me that on *this* issue, there is indeed not a dime's worth of difference between our two institutions of national sclerosis.