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Skriven 2011-04-13 16:51:37 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 16774 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Names will never hurt me...
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12 Apr 11 15:44, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 BA>>> In any case there WERE US installations on Taiwan, AFAIK they've
 BA>>> been shut down.

 RW>> That was before the Chinese were a world power. My uncle was
 RW>> stationed on 'Formosa' when Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of free
 RW>> China.

 RB> And I can still remember when the USA deserted it's friend Taiwan for
 RB> pragmatic reasons. I was pretty ashamed for the USA when that
 RB> happened, and still regard it as a prime example of political
 RB> pragmatism, with no regard whatever for honesty, friendship or mutual
 RB> respect.

In spite of what you say, the US has just recently participated in joint
manuevers with the Taiwanese 'navy'...mainland China objected to it, but
it happened anyway.

 RB> That reminds me a little of the EU preaching freedom and democracy,
 RB> but leaving those who strive toward it in the lurch when it comes to
 RB> putting their money where their mouth is.

You know of course that the EU is more talk than action. Always has been,
even before there was an EU, always will be.

 RB> No country, or in the case of the EU, group of countries, is immune
 RB> to the principle of "self-interest above all".

If that were true, we would have posterity for everyone in the States and
our troops at home enjoying their share of it.

                R\%/itt

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