--- David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Despite the fact that the pace of world events is > dizzyingly faster than in Roman times, and meetings > between EU-Russia-China would easily craft a > formidable multipolar rival, that we seem bent on > pushing into being.
This is absurd. I can just imagine the Russians - who think the largest long-term threat to their security is the Chinese - the Chinese, who are dependent on a $150BB trade surplus with the US - and the EU, which is over any significant period of time going to be absorbed by its demographically determined slide into irrelevance - getting together and deciding to counterbalance the US. Right. China might possibly be able to put together a military capable of challenging the US...in 2040. By which time, _I_, the second-youngest person on the list, will probably be retired. So it's not exactly imminent. > Unbelievable. My contacts in the foreign service > say > these meeting have gove from "languid and > theoretical" > to "urgent and purposeful. Well, mine are pretty good and say very much the opposite, so what are you going to do? > > > > > Today, relations with India (and Pakistan) are > > stronger than ever. > > > Thanks to Bill Clinton This is nonsense, Dr. Brin, and why I find you completely uncredible on issues of politics. Can you even name Clinton's ambassador to India? Can _anyone_ on the list? _I_ can't even do it, for god's sake, and I follow relations with India rather closely for obvious reasons. But everyone knew that Bush sending Bob Blackwill to India was a sign of just how seriously he was taking that bilateral relationship - and much overdo, given the ludicrous undervaluing of that relationship by a Clinton Administration obsessed with China. Ritually claiming that everything good in the world was the product of Bill Clinton in the absence of evidence and common sense is not an argument. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
