paper, rock, scissors

it amazes me that we EVER do business with the bad guys (will we never learn?) and in the end it may bring us down.

i mean, they simply do not see things the way we do (neither china nor the middle east) so we need to quit trying to deal with them. 'but they have things we want'. yeah, and that's a big part of the problem, isn't it.

regardless, who was the idiot who decided we should be friends with china? oh wait ... the business community was a strong driving force. uh, huh ... greed is good for us, right?

poor australia -- we now are putting marines on their lands. and they don't want us there, but aren't they being short-sighted if they think that the world over there (china, the middle east, indonesia, and australia/new zealand) can get along peacefully. oh just hell. poor all of us.