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	<title>Comments on: Happy New Year, and a Good Link to Read</title>
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		<title>By: Matt M</title>
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		<dc:creator>Matt M</dc:creator>
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		<description>One of the things I love about China is the remarkable amount of psychological freedom that comes with being an expat.  This is just one of many intangible benefits seeking the American Dream abroad€¦

It seems the Neo Con party line is something like this: &quot;We will force-feed your country democracy whether you like it or not.  Shut up and take your medicine.&quot;
Well, they got their dose of democracy all right.  And they elected people who are turned off with U.S. foreign policy.  Or maybe the Hindu majority in India doesn&#039;t like McDonald&#039;s fattening up their children on BigMacs?  Maybe other countries see the Big Sand Grab in the Middle East, and are scared they&#039;ll be next with all our flying killer robots and Blackwater (Xe) mercenaries?  Or maybe they just want to make nice to THE manufacturing center of the world - - - The Middle Kingdom?

It is as if the only manufactured good still being produced in America and exported is &quot;democracy.&quot;  While an Obama Whitehouse seems like the picture perfect advert for democracy, it doesn&#039;t take a political science major to see that the original land of the free and home of the brave seems to resemble the very fascist dictatorships the U.S. had been warring against (and in cases on behalf of) for the last hundred years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the things I love about China is the remarkable amount of psychological freedom that comes with being an expat.  This is just one of many intangible benefits seeking the American Dream abroad€¦</p>
<p>It seems the Neo Con party line is something like this: &#8220;We will force-feed your country democracy whether you like it or not.  Shut up and take your medicine.&#8221;<br />
Well, they got their dose of democracy all right.  And they elected people who are turned off with U.S. foreign policy.  Or maybe the Hindu majority in India doesn&#8217;t like McDonald&#8217;s fattening up their children on BigMacs?  Maybe other countries see the Big Sand Grab in the Middle East, and are scared they&#8217;ll be next with all our flying killer robots and Blackwater (Xe) mercenaries?  Or maybe they just want to make nice to THE manufacturing center of the world &#8211; - &#8211; The Middle Kingdom?</p>
<p>It is as if the only manufactured good still being produced in America and exported is &#8220;democracy.&#8221;  While an Obama Whitehouse seems like the picture perfect advert for democracy, it doesn&#8217;t take a political science major to see that the original land of the free and home of the brave seems to resemble the very fascist dictatorships the U.S. had been warring against (and in cases on behalf of) for the last hundred years.</p>
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