tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post4074281941062818768..comments2024-03-28T00:20:16.356-07:00Comments on China Matters: Ash Carter’s Asian FollyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-38449400829251231292016-04-15T06:27:15.877-07:002016-04-15T06:27:15.877-07:00"Gigantic anti-Chinese pogroms are a fact of ..."Gigantic anti-Chinese pogroms are a fact of recent Malaysian, Indonesian, and Vietnamese history. Resentment against the prosperous ethnic Chinese class permeates society in Thailand and the Philippines. Nobody in their right mind wants to light that fuse."<br /><br />Maybe that's a feature, not a bug. Destruction of and chaos in an entire part of the globe certainly seemed to be our intent in the Middle East if one considers the results.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12265028.post-27967873300158642172016-04-15T01:23:04.329-07:002016-04-15T01:23:04.329-07:00The Europeans had a couple of centuries of lording...The Europeans had a couple of centuries of lording over the Asians and the Asians were very glad to see the back of them. What makes the Americans think they will be thought of any differently.<br />As for wars in Asia since the end of World War 2, the United States has exacerbated and prolonged most of them. The Korean Civil War was effectively over when the United States intervened. The Vietnamese Civil War only really got started because the United States interfered.The invasion and occupation of East Timor was largely the responsibility of the United States. Except for the various wars between India and Pakistan, the rest have been either border disputes or civil wars. After the two world wars, most countries on the Eurasian landmass have worked out that warfare on an industrial scale just isn't worth it, even for the victors. The only major country that hasn't worked this out yet is the United States but then it's never fought a total war. The days when the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans were major barriers to attacks on the United States mainland are long gone.<br />BTW, don't you just love those crazy Russians:<br /><i>Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian defense ministry, said on Thursday that the pilots of Russian Su-24 jets saw the ship and turned back “while using all measures of precaution,” The Associated Press reported.</i> <br /><i>He said the ministry was baffled by what he described as the “distressed reaction of our American counterparts.”</i> <br /><i>“The principle of freedom of navigation for the U.S. destroyer, which is staying in close proximity to a Russian naval base in the Baltic Sea, does at all not cancel the principle of freedom of flight for Russian aircraft,” Mr. Konashenkov said.</i><br />American spokesmen are just wimps compared to this guy. blowbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04833922175199272372noreply@blogger.com