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killian · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 4:29 am Post subject:

jason,
please refrain from the personal attacks. i don't know you from adam.

the sooner the people of taiwan acknowledge that they are under the aegis of the US the happier they'll be. there need be no declaration. the papers already exist and lead a clear path. taiwan is an insular area of the US governed by proxy.

the leadership of china is aware of such. naturally, they don't reveal it to the masses. would you? the people of taiwan have a limited opportunity to grab the benefits accorded americans. it behooves them to take them.

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

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True. Probably the best thing for the island is a peaceful transition to sovereign statehood.

killian · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:10 pm Post subject:

it's OK my canadian brother. it is OK. gege is here to cover you. rant and kick all you want. when the work needs to be done we'll give your army a ride to where ever it needs to go.

killian · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

of course, that next question will be: is canada a soverign nation? not with the queen as the official head of state.

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

killian · Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 1:44 am Post subject:

well, WHEN did taiwan become a country? a date, a year would be nice.

the next time the texas oil boys and their war making hardliners consult me, i'll be sure to let you know. painting the vast majority of american as cohorts of Dr. Evil is easy, but wrong. please condider seeing us as hapless stooges...more like the bumbling henchmen of the penguin that 89 lb. robin used to knock out.

we all can play the "hate america" game. but let's fine tune it just a bit...down to "hate the oil boys", eh? JFK was all for scaling back in viet nam. he got killed. in comes LBJ (a texan) and vietnam "goes off". for about twenty years after LBJ...america was had to resort to secret wars (that many americans still know nothing of). nixon,ford,reagan...none of em realy had wars to call their own. poppy bush (long time texas resident, in with the oil boys) comes into office...IRAQ 1. brushed aside is the fact that Kuwait was stealing Iraq's oil. Iraq even went to the UN to stop them. Clinton was a "lover, not a fighter". Junior Bush, the third texan president in my lifetime...and viola...the third texan president has a war to call his own...Iraq2/Afgahnistan/???.

yeah capitalism sucks. please remind me of the other options?

america is so evil. why do domany canadians flock to live along the US?candian border?

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

TaoyuanSteve · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 1028 Location: Taoyuan

Can we all keep discussions here centered around English teaching in Taiwan? I'm not sure how Americans and Canadians trading barbs has anything to do with the main topic of this thread (or this forum for that matter). My only comment would be that I can see how the extremist, anti-American views of some on this forum contribute to the resentment that some Americans feel toward us (Canadians).

jason_seeburn · Joined: 26 Apr 2003 Posts: 399 Location: Toronto

TaoyuanSteve · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 1028 Location: Taoyuan

If you have something to say about life and work in Taiwan, I'd love to hear it. However, there must be forums on the net somewhere else where you can air your prejudices about other nationalities.