given the following facts, they are of an ideology that is completely different from your free society ideology. Their ideology is oppression and tyranny and they are sworn enemies of your village because you stand for freedom. So they give weapons to other peoples that hate you to kill your people and make war on you. Meanwhile they sit back, and pretend they want to be your friend and to prove it they offer cheap labor to you so you can lay off all your workers and create jobs and wealth in their village. Their village gets stronger and can then create more weapons to send to your enemies and to threaten you with. And they are in the middle of a great military buildup to threaten your interests. Your are the chief of your free village, would you trade with that village ..given this scenario?
2007-08-03 06:36:59 · 6 answers · asked by bush l 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Would you close down your places that create jobs and send those jobs over to that other village..to helpt them get stronger so they can threaten you more? or do you think that your ability to create those jobs (and not strenghtening the enemy) is a matter of vital Village security?
2007-08-03 06:39:37 · update #1
mckenzie calhoun sounds like you are a fascist. You believe that the country is best run by the few who know better and common citizens should just shut up and accept their fate.
2007-08-03 10:35:30 · update #2
Rule one of survival.
Don't help your enemy get stronger.
Yes China does hate the USA for our freedoms. This is the one instance where that phrase can be used factually. They are a communist dictatorship, and while communism has pretty much been proven to be fallacious and non-productive, they insist on retaining the dictatorship part. So they have evolved, and have figured out that they can do a ropey dope and sell us the rope with which to hang ourselves by taking advanage of the achilles heel of capitalism and freedom----excesive out of control greed.
THERE IS NO WAY IN THE WORLD ANYONE CAN CONVINCE ME THAT TRADING WITH CHINA IS GOOD FOR OUR COUNTRY WHEN THAT VERY TRADE HELPS THEM CREATE WEAPONS BLOWING UP OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ RIGHT NOW, OR THE UNSAFE PRODUCTS THAT ARE SETTING BACK CONSUMERS IN THIS COUNTRY 100 YEARS IN TERMS OF CONSUMER PROTECTION.
2007-08-03 07:02:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wouldn't it be nice if the realities of foreign policy were that simple.
Foreign policy isn't driven by ideologies as much as it is driven by survival.
We trade with all sorts of people, all nations to some extent, helping those we have things in common with more than those which act against our interests. Sometimes there are only so many places you can get things. Sometimes you have to side with your enemy against a greater enemy (Osama, Saddam).
It isn't a pretense. They know what the situation is, so do we.
It's only those who have idealism and rose-colored glasses, who are quick to condemn because reality doesn't match their "pretty picture" of how things "should be" that have no clue.
They wonder why don't have full transparency of government in a world eager to get our national secrets to use them against us.
They wonder why we have a President who doesn't follow the polls and please everyone in a world where the public follows gossip and rarified ideologies rather than facts and reality.
They wonder why government representatives don't seem to listen in an environment where they are all (millions of them) called corrupt and dirty by people who have never been in government.
Chief of the free village protects his village. That comes first, thank you.
2007-08-03 06:49:04 · answer #2 · answered by mckenziecalhoun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I vote for not trading with the enemy,which is tantamount to trading with sleeping with the enemy. This is the problem, people make things much more complex than they need to be. Whatever happened to good old fashioned common sense?
2007-08-03 07:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you're talking about China and the answer is no, I wouldn't trade with China. They're repressive and they violate human rights. I don't know that they hate the US for its "freedom." I don't believe that's the reason that any country hates the US.
2007-08-03 06:41:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the products from said village are apparently crappy, I think I'll start trading with another village.
2007-08-03 06:44:44 · answer #5 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth's resources are NOT uniformly distributed, and Trade/Conquest has been the norm since humans became more settled.
2007-08-03 06:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by outcrop 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋