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GENERAL TSO’S CHICKEN COOP
Regarding your "Breaking China" NRO post: I'm not sure I agree with the idea that an excess 24 million young men bodes ill for China as a military power. Wouldn't military adventurism be one way to thin the herd of the less desirables? While nuclear India and Russia aren't as susceptible to sheer numbers, some of their smaller neighbors might be.
Jim
MAKE WAR (BECAUSE YOU CAN’T MAKE LOVE)
What to do with 24 million unmarriable men, Mark? Start wars. Lots and lots of wars. Hell, China could build a human bridge to Taiwan and still have so many millions of guys left over they could win a war with only rocks as weaponry. Maybe not what Friedman & Co. are thinking of when they look forward to the coming Chinese hyperpower, but I'm sure somehow Chinese belligerence will be Bush's fault.
Maureen
MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU, CHRIS
An “extra” 24 million men.
If I was an evil dictator and someone gave me 24 million unmarried men, I'd give them all white body armor and laser guns and call myself Darth Vader.
Chris
PLANNING PARENTHOOD, THIRD WORLD-STYLE
When reading your "Breaking China" post, I was reminded of a similar article I read about the same thing going on in India with gender selection-based abortions. It's gotten so bad that they've outlawed doctors from telling women the sex of their child. It's a harsh bite of irony to the Western women who are pushing for world-wide access to abortions when it's their own sex that becomes the target of those abortions.
Oh, and women's rights groups' solution to this problem? More regulation and enforcement of the law preventing doctors from revealing the sex of the child. Unbelievable.
Thomas Edwards
Washington, DC
THE STRUCTURAL DEFECT TRIFECTA?
Mark, you forgot another significant structural defect of China's. I am a geographer— not a famous geographer or a tenured geographer, but an adequate geographer nonetheless— and I can tell you the only thing China will become in the next century will be a place not to go if you are hungry. Despite their huge land mass, only eleven percent of that land it is arable (capable of producing food, declining from thirteen percent a decade ago). The barter of the future will be high caloric starch laden food, not petroleum, not textiles— and certainly not entertainment electronics.
Michael Hauschild
AIR AMERICA’S LAST LISTENER FOUND!
So, you’re keeping Rush’s audience warm while he's off diddling little boys in Las Vegas, huh, cupcake?
Your pompous, arrogant, smug and smarmy routine sure wears thin after about five minutes, sweetpea. It must really suck to be you, honeybuns!
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