District of Criminals Re-news Trade Relations With the Butchers of Vientiane
Roach-Busters
20-11-2004, 22:38
It was in today's issue of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Trade has been resumed, after almost thirty years of severed relations, with the totalitarian dictatorship of Laos, a dictatorship traitors Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon forced down the throats of the anticommunist people of Laos. Since then, there have been hundreds of thousands of refugees (not just Hmong) fleeing the barbarous regime.
Roach-Busters
20-11-2004, 22:43
Worse, whereas the Hanoi butchers at least returned some of our POWs, the Vientiane monsters never returned a single one. So much for Bush 'supporting our troops.'
Roach-Busters
20-11-2004, 22:51
No one else is appalled by this?
Ashmoria
20-11-2004, 23:17
no i am not appalled
our best influence on an isolationist government like laos is free trade with them. this will be the first step to changing them for the better.
Free Soviets
20-11-2004, 23:27
our best influence on an isolationist government like laos is free trade with them. this will be the first step to changing them for the better.
or allowing the ruling elite to do even better for themselves by forcing their oppressed masses to work in shitty conditions making crap to be sold at walmart.
Ashmoria
20-11-2004, 23:35
or allowing the ruling elite to do even better for themselves by forcing their oppressed masses to work in shitty conditions making crap to be sold at walmart.
yeah
win/win eh?
on a more serious note, do you really want to carry a political grudge FOREVER? there does come a time to mend fences and see what we can do for the future.
Roach-Busters
20-11-2004, 23:49
no i am not appalled
our best influence on an isolationist government like laos is free trade with them. this will be the first step to changing them for the better.
Free trade will not change their barbarous human rights conditions. Look at what trade with China has done. It has changed China from an impoverished, Third World dunghole teetering on the brink of collapse into a pseudo-superpower exponentially stronger than it was when Nixon first visited Peking in 1972. China's economic policies have changed, but its totalitarianism has not, and neither has its opinion of us. China would still like nothing more than to watch us get wiped off the face of the planet.
Fugee-La
21-11-2004, 00:44
^
ONOZ it's teh azn invasion!
Srg_science
21-11-2004, 00:51
no i am not appalled
our best influence on an isolationist government like laos is free trade with them. this will be the first step to changing them for the better.
So, then, we should have traded with Iraq instead of invading, yes?
Ashmoria
21-11-2004, 01:47
So, then, we should have traded with Iraq instead of invading, yes?
maybe so
its not like iraq had ever done anything to US
but we did have that little problem with them back in the early 90s when they tried eating up the neighbors.
so who knows
china has changed incredibly since it liberalized its economy. its still a party dictatorship but china has never had democracy. having an economic stake in the world makes it less likely that they will decide to go to war and ruin it all.