“The administration continues to use technical and legalistic dodges to avoid saying what everyone knows to be true – the Chinese manipulate their currency. It's as plain as the nose on your race,” Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a joint statement.Sorry, now back to speculating about the consulate attack and Iran. Has anyone stopped to think about the effect this attack has had on US-Iraqi Kurdistan relations?
“If the administration still won't call China a manipulator, how can we ever expect them to get China to play fair?” they asked.
Schumer and Graham were the lead sponsors of legislation last year that would have imposed 27.5 percent penalty tariffs on all Chinese imports if China did not move more quickly to allow its currency to rise in value against the dollar.
The administration opposed the legislation on the grounds that it would raise the price of Chinese imports to American consumers.
"It's not a failure, it's just a success that hasn't happened yet."Dios, your explanations, as usual, are correct, though seldom right.
The letter to the fellow Board of Councilors, with more than 200 members, was brief and less detailed but expressed concern about Carter's book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid."So, just now, I was thinking about how to elaborate on the link I saw between the issues, and I came across an article by Michael Shurkin, Is Zionism Colonialism. Brilliant! To cement the link with the current debate:
"We are deeply troubled by the president's comments and writings and are submitting the following letter of resignation to the Carter Center," the letter said.
The letters were signed by Alan Abrams, Steve Berman, Michael Coles, Jon Golden, Doug Hertz, Barbara Babbit Kaufman, Liane Levetan, Jeff Levy, Leon Novak, Ambassador William B. Schwartz Jr., William B. Schwartz III, Steve Selig, Cathey Steinberg, and Gail Solomon.
What this means is that, despite what Arabs think, Zionism is not really about them. It is about Europe, and it is about negating in the Jew that which the Europeans (and thus acculturated modern Jews) found hateful. Indeed, Amos Oz's essays on Zionist writers and ideologues in Under This Blazing Light describe a rage that matches word for word Memmi's description of the fury of the colonized. Zionism is an attempt to best Europe, to combat Europe, to spite Europe.Which explains the alliance between Israel and the USA. Let's not stop there though, Shurkin even mentions Carter in the article:
There is a less radical view, in which a Palestinian Law of Return would repopulate Palestine and make Israelis a minority either in a Palestinian state or in some hybrid dual-national state. A lot of well-meaning people, among them Jimmy Carter, believe that such schemes could work and that peace would arrive. One might argue that Jews could place their trust in some international peace-keeping force, but in light of the history of such forces (think Srebrenica, or the UN's retreat from Sinai in 1967 to clear the path for Nasser's crusading armies), one might as well argue that Jews should just place their head against Arab gun barrels and pull the trigger themselves. In addition, there is no reason to believe that Arabs would be happy with a Western military police force keeping them from slaughtering their neighbors. They would perceive it, not inaccurately, as just another colonial occupation.Well, Carter might be wrong, but the Jews resigning over it are just affirming their role as colonizers.
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