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A Biblical Seven Years
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As I sat in my seat at the Bird’s Nest, watching thousands of Chinese dancers, drummers, singers and acrobats on stilts perform their magic at the closing ceremony, I couldn’t help but reflect on how China and America have spent the last seven years: China has been preparing for the Olympics; we’ve been preparing for Al Qaeda. They’ve been building better stadiums, subways, airports, roads and parks. And we’ve been building better metal detectors, armored Humvees and pilotless drones.
The difference is starting to show. Just compare arriving at La Guardia’s dumpy terminal in New York City and driving through the crumbling infrastructure into Manhattan with arriving at Shanghai’s sleek airport and taking the 220-mile-per-hour magnetic levitation train, which uses electromagnetic propulsion instead of steel wheels and tracks, to get to town in a blink.
Then ask yourself: Who is living in the third world country?
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If your answer is “I am.” and you live in the United States, speak out. Write a letter to the editor. Talk to your Mayor and Congressional representatives.
It your answer is “I am.” and you live in China, better keep it to yourself, because Third World people get in trouble when they complain. Really serious trouble. Prison trouble.
And if you do it in the US, and you accidentally you phrase it the wrong way, then you can get into trouble. Taser trouble. Prison trouble. Gitmo trouble.
Denying the bad news is not the way. Acting on them is. So I would start to read the article attentively, for the real message is: We wasted 7 years. Don’t waste another seven.
But then you can’t simply dismiss it, can you?