"trader_4" wrote in message
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On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 6:13:10 PM UTC-5, dadiOH wrote:
"philo" wrote in message
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China is a Communist county so theoretically our enemy.

Why?

It makes thinking about complex issues simpler and easier to keep score,
I guess. I had that reaction too. I mean we should be for freedom,
human rights, and to the extent these regimes oppress their people,'
we should be against that, but I'm not sure that automatically makes
them our enemies.

No reason it should IMO; however, doing so is good for some, namely, the
military and those who profit from war and turbulence. The government too;
an enemy - real or perceived - allows them to implement things that would
not normally be allowed. Just ask Dubya.

We spent close to a half century with the country all riled up over the
godless, communist USSR who never did jack squat to us except - possibly -
enable the allies to win WW2. During that tine the US was directly or
indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of people all over the
world, all in the name of making the world safe for democracy, whether they
wanted it or not.

Well, the USSR went away so we needed another enemy. We got it. We got it
largely because of the US actions during the aforementioned half century.