| Gunjan, While I generally agree with most of your comments I must wholeheartedly and completely disagree with your comment that Canada is practicing colonialism in Afghanistan. I am an Engineering Director in China but I was formerly a Canadian army officer. What Canada is doing is supporting the rule of law and stabilizing a country fractured on all sides by geopolitics. Canada has a long proud tradition of unbiased peacekeeping in many parts of the world and was the only country that tried to lead an unconcerned world against the 1994 Rwandan genocide. If you want to cast accusations around, I can do it equally as well...I was posted for a time with the United Nations and was directly involved with the Pakistani-Indian tensions. Trust me, this is not an area where India nor Pakistan has distinguished itself. Racism and colonialism is not confined to white faces, my friend. Also, last time I checked, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe were not going bankrupt or floundering....the U.S. is. But in the end, as I said, I do generally agree with you....the Chinese are being strangled by their own restrictive government which is partly held in power by misguided nationalism. Let me put it this way...Chairman Mao and his henchmen starved (in many cases intentionally) more people than Stalin, yet he's revered and his portrait is on the currency. |
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