A Biblical Seven Years
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Excerpt:

"As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/opinion/27friedman.html?em

theyve also been commmiting human rights violations and contributing massively to pollution. i hate people who bad mouth the USA. in my eyes the average american has 10x the heart of anyone from anywhere else. the only continent i havent been on is S.america and australia. antarctica dont count. everyone needs to get off their high horses and be thankful for so very much.

interesting article

SOOOOO WHAT is biblical about it????

LINDYY

Dubya?

Sometimes you are very good at posting....but this makes NOOOOOO sense

LINDYY

anyhow

great read good find, thanks for shareing

well be thankful were not in china where you couldnt say anyhting even remotely against the govt. youre welcome btw....

The Chinese government as a whole is not stupid. They've been able to observe the successes and failures of every nation on earth while keeping their population cut off from the world. We are, as is every other nation, a lab experiment who's lessons can be studied and adapted by the Chinese.

China began to build in recent years roadways that modeled our interstate highway system. Many U.S. citizens take our interstates for granted but in truth they are fairly recent and have greatly contributed to our prosperity. China looked to that U.S. success and has begun to copy it.

Don't congratulate China or overlook it please.

Anyone who dismisses China I think does so at their peril. The right has talked out of both sides of their mouth on and to China.

Ride the wave all the way to the bank...there is no allegiance to kith and kin or to this country there there is only allegiance to money the parties elite make on both sides of the isle. (Still the Bush administration has been at the wheel for nearly eight years so I will place the blame for our relationship with China on them.)

Please stop and look at what we owe China now. It scares me(see Debt & China) not so much for me but for my children and grandchildren. Look at Bush in sitting happily in China at the Olympics. It makes me feel like throwing-up.

Richard Nixon, (damn, now I am going to say something nice about Nixon) opened the door to China. He understood the countries potential power and provided us an opening. We've fumbled the ball.

Now look at where we are in terms of debt. Who owns the notes?

We owe them, the Chinese. Funny isn't it how things change? Do you think Nixon saw this coming? I bet not haha

Someone told me long ago when questioning anyone's actions to look at who benefits and who loses. Then step back and look again. Follow the money...haha