On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:16:58 GMT, (Christopher)
wrote, in part:

Isn't it comforting to know that American paranoia is still alive and
well.

You're not paranoid if you really have enemies.

That some people who don't share America's democratic values are its
enemies is borne out by September 11, 2001.

That China doesn't share America's democratic values is borne out by
the fate of Tibet. (That is, the democratic values of the America of
today and at least as far back as Woodrow Wilson, before anyone makes
wisecracks about the fate of Native Americans...)

If China were weak and helpless, Tibet would have been liberated long
ago. Therefore, for China not to be weak and helpless is bad, because
China's not being weak and helpless is contributing to innocent people
getting hurt.

Where is the flaw in that logic?

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html