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发帖数: 17532 | 1 不得不说，右派的人还是直一点，比较少有同性恋左派
那些弯弯肠子
http://buchanan.org/blog/how-the-chinese-must-see-us-4595
How the Chinese Must See Us
22 Jan
By Patrick J. Buchanan
“O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us,
” wrote the poet Robert Burns.
As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America’s hectoring still ringing in his
ears, he must be thinking that maybe we Americans should stop lecturing them
and take a closer look at ourselves.
Revalue your currency, we demand of the Chinese, stop running these trade
surpluses at our expense, start practicing free trade, and abandon these
mercantilist and protectionist policies.
But why should they? Why should China abandon a trade policy that is working
marvelously well for them, and adopt a trade policy that is failing
dismally for us? Does that make sense?
Why should any nation emulate the U.S. trade policy of the Bush-Clinton-Bush
era that has stripped us of a third of our manufacturing jobs and made us
dependent on China and the world for the needs of our national life and the
borrowed money to pay for them?
Why would China, seeking to make herself an independent and self-sufficient
nation, adopt a policy that cost us our independence?
And what are the Chinese doing in their ascendancy to first power on earth
that we did not do in ours?
Are our Milton Friedmanite free-traders unaware of how it was that, in the
last third of the 19th century, we left the British in the dust? Are they
unaware we had the highest tariffs on earth to price British products out of
our market and goad rapacious Yankees into building new factories to
produce the same goods we were then importing from Great Britain?
Lest we forget, the Americans who turned this country into the industrial
marvel of mankind were known as “Robber Barons.”
As they put America first in our rise, the Chinese are putting China first.
Our grand strategists demand to know why the Chinese are making these brash
claims to all the islands in the South China and East China seas. Why are
they telling us to keep our aircraft carriers out of the Yellow Sea and out
of the Taiwan Strait? Who do they think they are?
Well, maybe they think they’re 19th-century Americans.
Did not James Monroe and John Quincy Adams brashly tell the great powers of
Europe to stay out of our hemisphere?
What are the Chinese about, other than imposing a Monroe Doctrine of their
own? As historian Walter McDougall writes, Otto von Bismarck was as
affronted by us as we are by the Chinese, declaring that the Monroe Doctrine
represented “a species of arrogance peculiarly American and inexcusable.”
Hu Jintao got an earful from us on his human rights records. Stop the
repression of Uighurs and Tibetans. Stop jailing political dissidents. Allow
more freedom of the Internet and the press.
But on his way home, Hu must be thinking to himself: Who are these Americans
to lecture us?
Is this not the same tribe that enslaved black people for 250 years and
segregated them for a century? Is this not the same tribe that drove the
Indians off their lands, then stuck them all in Bantustans called
reservations? Are these not the only people in history to have dropped
atomic bombs on defenseless cities?
How would we have reacted if Hu, instead of pretending he couldn’t hear the
translation of that question about human rights, retorted, “We Chinese are
also concerned about what we read of human rights at Abu Ghraib and
Guantanamo, of renditions, torture and something called ‘water-boarding.’”
This is not written in defense of the Chinese communists who are a
purposeful and ruthless lot, but to suggest that we Americans no longer look
like the self-confident nation of Dwight Eisenhower and JFK that was
unintimidated by the brutal and bullying Soviet Union of Nikita Khrushchev.
We were in a great struggle then — and acted like we could win it.
But as America sinks economically and retreats strategically, while China
grows at 10 percent and bristles with confidence, we appear to be a nation
of whiners. They are eating our lunch, and we sound like losers in a locker
room.
We demand that the Chinese be more open and tolerant of opposition and
dissent. But when they look at the gridlock of American democracy, the
pettiness of our politics and the failure of our policies, while they are on
the move at home and all over the world, why should they want to be more
like us?
Has our American capitalism in this century performed as well as their
autocratic capitalism? Is our political performance an argument for the
superiority of our ballyhooed democracy over their one-party state?
We can’t win or end our wars, balance our budgets or control our borders.
Great states like California and Illinois appear about to go belly-up. The U
.S. government is running a third straight deficit of near 10 percent of our
entire economy. We used our stimulus money to save government jobs. They
used theirs for bullet trains.
Time to see ourselves as others see us. | p*****i
发帖数: 739 | 2 个人觉得美国两党写手和吹鼓手都是这样，只不过国人很少有闲心看这些文章，也很少
有闲心翻墙看这些talk show。我共进口这些货色的时候，除了不得不过滤以外，说了
老实话，常常也偷工减料。
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【在 xt 的大作中提到】
: 不得不说，右派的人还是直一点，比较少有同性恋左派
: 那些弯弯肠子
: http://buchanan.org/blog/how-the-chinese-must-see-us-4595
: How the Chinese Must See Us
: 22 Jan
: By Patrick J. Buchanan
: “O would some power the gift to give us to see ourselves as others see us,
: ” wrote the poet Robert Burns.
: As Hu Jintao wings his way home, America’s hectoring still ringing in his
: ears, he must be thinking that maybe we Americans should stop lecturing them
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