Bombs and Dollars – American Foreign Policy Blog – China, Afghanistan, Pakistan

The “Fundamental Transformation” of America.

Partisanship is running high these days, if you listen to any of the commentators, but one thing that partisans from both sides agree on is this: big changes are quickly coming to America.

Conservatives have been saying that Obama is a radical president intent on bringing socialism to America. Obama said that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America, prompting Glenn Beck to ask, “Transform into what?”

The passage of Arizona’s recent immigration law, according to liberals, signals America’s first steps into Nazi-ism or apartheid. This view has even been endorsed by Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado: “It is absolutely reminiscent of second class status of Jews in Germany prior to World War II.” (And they say Beck’s investigation into FEMA camps was conspiracy-mongering…)

Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN, recently told the Young Democratic Socialists that we are entering a new age of McCarthyism. (True, the tea partiers are routinely accused of being un-American seditionists by liberals.)

But the truth is, America isn’t fundamentally changing because of Obama and Congressional Democrats’ actions. America faces great change from large scale global and domestic events that would have came about no matter what Obama did. Obama is only hastening some of the economic changes.

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China Hush has some thoughts from Zhang Hongliang on why China’s trade partnership with America is bad for them: The “Disaster” of Chimerica: Are Both Sides Losers?
No, but both sides are behaving like sore losers.

Here’s Zhang Hongliang:

1.) The US enjoys the accomplishments of industrialization while China bears the burden of the negative effects of industrialization. … environmental pollution and the depletion of resources, overproduction, and inflation.

Of course China bears the pollution; THEY CREATE THE PRODUCT!

So that means they get the money and the jobs, and the US is losing jobs to China. China bears the burden and also reaps massive rewards.

2.) The formation of a new pattern of the distribution of wealth: Whatever China has, the US gets to enjoy.

Distribution of wealth=Americans give money to China. The US pays Chinese companies for products, the Chinese enjoy increased prosperity from America, their economy growing faster than any other in the world, and thus there are rising wages and rising standard of living.

Generally speaking, when you pay someone, you get something in return, so yeah, that’s how the US gets to enjoy Chinese products, and the Chinese get to enjoy US wealth.

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President Pratibha Patil, the youthful 74-year-old head of state of India, made history earlier this week by flying a Sukhoi 30 MKI fighter jet for an unbelievable 40 minute sortie from the Indian Air Force base at Pune, India. By doing this she made history by being a woman, as well as the oldest individual, to have done this feat, which has possibly not been done in the World ever before…

She was on a solidarity tour of the Indian Forces a couple of days before one full year of the Mumbai Terror attacks. In a move much appreciated by the Indian media, our First Granny had to give a tiresome physical test, before getting in the jump-suit for the sortie…

President Patil also pitched hard for women pilots in the defense forces in the press conference afterward, which in India is still a mostly male dominated affair.
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* Exactly a year since 11/26, Mumbai. Nothing changed, basically. Same skulduggery by Pakistan, same confusion of U.S.A. and U.K., and same dithering on the part of the Govt. of India. Meanwhile it costs a bloody Rs. 31 Crore ($6,700,000) to keep the terrorist Ajmal Amir Kasab alive and secured for trial… in the last year! And you thought the recession was because of economy!
It costs Rs. 31 crore to keep a terrorist alive!

* Talking about Mumbai, here’s a view from one of the most influential Israeli dailies. Israel, by the way, had the highest number of casualties in the terror attack after India, followed by U.S.A. and Britain, when a Jewish Chabad house was specifically targetted by the gunmen.
A year later, the rubble remains in Mumbai

* And this is what Pakistan did…
Paki satire on Mumbai 11/26

* While more attacks could happen anytime…
Mumbai-linked terrorists are still on the loose

* Some bitter memories of the attacks (via Atlas Shrugs):
Detailed reports on Mumbai

* Of which I was unfortunately a witness…
My experience of Mumbai
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Top Suspect: MILFs

Hundreds of gunmen hijacked and killed at least 21 people from a convoy, while they were on their way for a political rally, in the Philippines, for reasons known to solely to them (or to those who read their book). No one claimed responsibility in this incomprehensible, gruesome and abominable bloodshed, which is the deadliest in recent times. It happened in a region which is troubled by Muslim insurgency for quite sometime, and it’s anybody’s guess as to who are the perpetrators of the crime.

10 journalists, who were part of the convoy is also suspected to be killed after their organizations failed to contact them, in probably the single deadliest day for journalists dying as a result of political violence in history.

Attack on election convoy kills 21 Filipinos

The Philippines have been battling Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or M.I.L.F, rebels for decades now. And the country is a key ally to the U.S. government in the War against terror…
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Our Managing Director is ecstatic. Not only ’cause yesterday we got record traffic (Thanks, Neil Boortz!)…even 1 hit from China!…which is a cause for celebration in itself…but also I wrote this post entirely focusing on China and its relation with U.S. and other relevant news snippets. As you know, President Barack Obama’s Asia trip was a public relations disaster…which scoffed both time-tested allies like Israel, and India, but it also resulted in Chinese diplomatic victories on every front…and even snubbing of U.S. suggestions on some points…

Even just a month back, India and the U.S. were training for wars together. The U.S.-India relationship thrived under Bush, and they are a key ally in the War Conflict Against Terror.

Now, in China, Indian media is reporting that Obama’s comments about getting China more involved in the Pakistan are causing controversy.

India and Pakistan have had a tenuous relationship since the 1947 partition of India and the and the Indo-Pakistan War. India has had conflicts with China, too, over border lands, and just this summer, both countries were increasing troop levels on their border.
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India, a country with a ever passive and successive pacifist government, where the government officials always talk to press on conditions of anonymity, and where citizens are used to ministers not keeping promises about talking with Maoists and Islamists, has put it’s nuclear plants on high alert after intelligence reports of an attack.

This comes after a man, was arrested in the U.S. who was found to have done a reconnaissance of the places. Continue reading

God came to Arunachal Pradesh in an Indian army helicopter. Dalai Lama, who is known as an avatar of God, continued on his visit to Indian territory of Arunachal Pradesh, which is also claimed by China, as they claim or previously claimed all other territories, including Taiwan, Manchuria, Kashmir, and Singapore-Hongkong. Nevermind that.
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There are three types of Journalism…the good types (like us obviously!), the horrible types, (others) and the Pravda types…(well, the Pravda).

What started as a ridiculous communist propaganda machine during the times of the Czar, and then with times degraded into a hilariously corrupt rhetoric churner…maintained it’s tradition. In a changed world, where there is no more a fight of ideology between time tested free market economy and the obsolete and Utopian communism, and the gravest threat to humanity is from opportunists and religious maniacs (of any religion), these middle aged bored men, still gets some kind of cheap satisfaction by lecturing and blaming the “west” for all their problems, like sleeping disorders, and bowel movements…
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It’s a weird thing among communists, the infighting that takes place among them. Sino-Soviet border clash, Vietnam-Cambodia rift…and now China lambasted Obama government for the anti-dumping duties on steel pipes, carefully timed a week before President Obama’s visit.

But at last, after ages, they also claimed to be a market economy and wanted Washington to recognize the fact! (That a victory for capitalism, Mr. Chomsky?)

U.S., just out of recession and arrogant again, imposed anti-dumping duties of $2.63 billions, the biggest trade action against China ever. China is now countering this, by launching it’s own investigation against American products, which if goes true, will hit the already in coma car industry of U.S. the most.
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