Well, here goes.
First of all, I would like to thank the King of Thailand for his kindness extended to the Australian writer who accidentally stepped on cultural feet. I think this will go pretty far with travellers to
rekindle some faith and trust in the Thai authorities. A country's tourism can really go into the ditch if a traveller thinks the country authorities are unfair, unjust, cruel or whimsical. People didn't pack to travel to some of these countries only to find themselves in fairly dangerous, unpredictable situations.
Now, unfortunately, our Foreign Policy is not going to change one whit. America is going to continue to be a non-plus country with no real taste for integrity and values. So far, Obama, is really off to a rough and uneventful start; no magic here, just the same old stuff. How unfortunate to continue to be a broken record.
These are my thoughts for today.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Thoughts To My Blog, Feb. 14, 2009: Sihanoukville, Cambodia
Well here goes.
Things are really swirling around pretty fast and furious all of a sudden. Now, what does this mean. I think my advice to Hillary is for her to try and change some of the focus of our Foreign Policy. This would go a long way to making America a SuperPower again. Right now we a like a whale that has been beached and has lost its sonar. I support all of the measures to get the economy up and running again, but I hope President Obama would want so to look deeper than just at a jobs re-market. This financial crisis does not seen to be understood by anybody, other than to say, the market has fizzled and there is a lot less trading going on. I think the analysts need to look deeper into the situation to find out some of the who's and what's of banking lending that backfired so bad. There has to be some real people activity here that can explain what caused the dynamics to explode the way they did.
Of course, a person like myself thinks there much be some security issues that are a part of it, but what security issues they might be is mum's the word. Now Hillary, this is a real issue to get a handle on.
These are my thoughts for today.
Things are really swirling around pretty fast and furious all of a sudden. Now, what does this mean. I think my advice to Hillary is for her to try and change some of the focus of our Foreign Policy. This would go a long way to making America a SuperPower again. Right now we a like a whale that has been beached and has lost its sonar. I support all of the measures to get the economy up and running again, but I hope President Obama would want so to look deeper than just at a jobs re-market. This financial crisis does not seen to be understood by anybody, other than to say, the market has fizzled and there is a lot less trading going on. I think the analysts need to look deeper into the situation to find out some of the who's and what's of banking lending that backfired so bad. There has to be some real people activity here that can explain what caused the dynamics to explode the way they did.
Of course, a person like myself thinks there much be some security issues that are a part of it, but what security issues they might be is mum's the word. Now Hillary, this is a real issue to get a handle on.
These are my thoughts for today.
Thoughts to a friend in Ft. Myers, FL.
So, Obama is really a good person after all. No President was ever anywhere near Ft. Myers when I was living there. So, he comes there right off in his Presidency, just to show everybody that the comeback is going to need help from Floridians. I'm sure you know the Florida Real Estate market has problems. But Obama was there to look into jobs from contracts. And, I suspect that there are some influential people that asked him to come visit right off. Far out!
About Asia and the coming years. Both Thailand and Cambodia are infected with a kind of invective that is not good. Thailand is not a very nice country and is showing no signs of wanting to become better behaved. They like it like it is and, of course, tourists were 1 of the big money earners for the Thai economy; making global tourists look fairly dumb. I have not been to Thailand and cancelled an excellent deal on an apartment because of Thai attitudes. Cambodia is another question entirely. The Chinese Cambodians really push their weight around to all the other Cambodians. I suspect the Khymer Rouge were heavily financed by the Chinese Cambodians. So, they are right back to their old dead ideas that they can play it anyway they want and still come out being loved by us. Not so. McGee. For my money, I would not play up to these kind of attitudes. I think it is better to have a relationship based on sounder values than manipulation and coercion.
India is different. They seem to like the experience of democracy so will be really pushed around if China every tries to control everything. China has always been determined to kill any western ideas that come to Asia. Will they go after India and the democratic institutions there? They will go after the institutions but I don'tknow how successful they will be. The American Ambassadors are reallyimportant to this process.
About Asia and the coming years. Both Thailand and Cambodia are infected with a kind of invective that is not good. Thailand is not a very nice country and is showing no signs of wanting to become better behaved. They like it like it is and, of course, tourists were 1 of the big money earners for the Thai economy; making global tourists look fairly dumb. I have not been to Thailand and cancelled an excellent deal on an apartment because of Thai attitudes. Cambodia is another question entirely. The Chinese Cambodians really push their weight around to all the other Cambodians. I suspect the Khymer Rouge were heavily financed by the Chinese Cambodians. So, they are right back to their old dead ideas that they can play it anyway they want and still come out being loved by us. Not so. McGee. For my money, I would not play up to these kind of attitudes. I think it is better to have a relationship based on sounder values than manipulation and coercion.
India is different. They seem to like the experience of democracy so will be really pushed around if China every tries to control everything. China has always been determined to kill any western ideas that come to Asia. Will they go after India and the democratic institutions there? They will go after the institutions but I don'tknow how successful they will be. The American Ambassadors are reallyimportant to this process.
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