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VERY interesting read, but NOT for the faint of heart.
Affirmative Action and the American Mind: If Any
Posted on May 29, 2018 by Fred Reed
...America’s whites number at about 200 million, the Han Chinese of China about a billion–five times as many.
Beijing understands perfectly that technological virtuosity is crucial to the country’s well being. It spends heavily, and successfully, on increasing China’s performance. Those who follow such things note the speed of the the advance. A fully developed China will be able to deploy several times as many researchers and engineers, these being at least as intelligent as America’s, on problems of its choosing. Numbers count. They will count more as time goes by...
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun... Let your gun, therefore, be the constant companion of your walks." Thomas Jefferson, 1785.
Read "War is a Racket" by MG Smedly Butler,USMC. He was awarded the Medal of Honor twice. http://warisaracket.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Henry Kissinger said, "Military Men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in Foreign Policy" and has not denied this quote to this day.
My dad used to tell a story about someone mentioning to a Chinese general about fighting the Japanese. The man told the general that when fighting the Japanese there would 100 dead Chinese for every 1 Japanese and what did he think of that outcome. The general replied “ eventually no more Japanese “.