Questions Abound as China Unveils Another Stealth Jet

Machjo

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Oct 19, 2004
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I'm all for getting rid of the bomb. But I just don't see why economic xenophobia has to be thrown into the mix. Personally, I believe if we want peace in the world, we need to trade with one another, not isolate from one another.

Tennyson said it best:

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new:
That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do:


For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see,
Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be;


Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,
Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;


Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dew
From the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue;


Far along the world-wide whisper of the south-wind rushing warm,
With the standards of the peoples plunging thro' the thunder-storm;


Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd
In the Parliament of man, the Federation of the world.


There the common sense of most shall hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt in universal law.