Let's NOT Think Post-Invasion

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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 at 12:20am Thomas Seay wrote:
> >
> > Hmm.  You don't get out much, do you?
>
> Well I can see that your source, PBS, is much more
> reliable than my own:
>
> My wife is Chinese and was a member of the Young Communist
> League in China.  Her parents are still members of the
> Communist Party of China. I have a large number of friends
> and relatives in the Chinese community here as well as in
> China.  I speak the language.  I occasionally visit there.

All this is true and you still say that you never met anyone
who didn't miss the 'old way'?  I find that hard to believe.

Look, I was rude but I didn't mean to be when I was short;
for that I apologize and probably deserve your sarcastic
reply.  But I don't 'live in the mellow world of PBS', but I
did see film of real people really suffering who have not
benefited and in fact have gotten the shit end of the stick
in the new and wonderful China.


> My point was not that China is better or worse now.
> Somethings have gotten better and some things have
> gotten worse.  However, to promote China, under Mao or
> now, as some kind of model and imagine that it was not
> a police-state

I did no such thing.  I took issue with your assertion that
there was nobody who missed the old way.

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no Onan