March 03, 2005
With Friends Like These
Russia will develop missiles impervious to any defense, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said yesterday in an apparent allusion the U.S. missile-defense system now under development.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday told Canadian diplomats of her disappointment over Ottawa's decision to opt out of a U.S.-led anti-ballistic missile shield program.
Now God damn it, why can't the rest of the world just sit back and take its fucking medicine, like we expect it to?
Update, 3/4/05: China accused the United States yesterday of using double-standards to judge human rights in other countries, adding to a growing list of nations suggesting the government that produced the Abu Ghraib prison abuses has no business commenting on what happens elsewhere.
The report lambasted the Pentagon for "wanton slaughters" abroad, belittled American elections as awash in special-interest cash, and accused U.S. courts of deep-seated racial bias.
Some may, of course, argue that "Red China" is not a "friend" of the United States. But the U.S. continually grants China MFN trade status, and imports from China as though there were no tomorrow. China, in turn, does its part in helping to prop up the U.S. economy by taking on billions of dollars in U.S. debt.
Posted by Eddie Tews at March 3, 2005 06:02 PM
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