Apology to China......

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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The United States of America apologizes to the People’s Republic of China for allowing our reconnaissance plane to be hit by your poorly trained, hot-dogging fighter pilot, while flying in international airspace.

We’re sorry we have to fly surveillance missions to monitor a country that has nuclear missiles pointed at us.

We’re sorry your pilot didn’t follow international standards of fighter intercept protocol.

We’re sorry his aircraft recognition skills were so poor he didn’t realize the EP-3 aircraft was propeller driven and flew his aircraft through its propeller arc, destroying his aircraft and nearly killing 24 American crewmen.

We’re sorry your fighter pilot’s survival training and equipment was so inadequate that he couldn’t survive until your poorly trained and equipped navy could find him (they turned down our offer for search and rescue assistance).

We’re sorry you violated international law and arrested the crewmen of an aircraft that legally diverted into your airfield under emergency conditions caused by your pilot’s actions.

We’re sorry you violated international law and boarded a state aircraft.

We’re sorry the world is now seeing you for the enemy of freedom, truth, and democracy that you really are.

We’re sorry you see yourself as a superpower when in reality you are a third world nation (the average Chinese worker earns less than 10 cents a day).

We’re sorry you are losing so much face over this.

We’re sorry that you were able to steal missile and nuclear secrets from us.

We’re sorry you haven’t learned from the Soviet Union’s collapse and failed to embrace democracy and capitalism (compare tiny Taiwan and mainland China; same people, same culture, but Taiwan’s capitalistic economy is a powerhouse and China’s economy is still mired in communism).

And most of all, we’re sorry for the Chinese people who suffer its leaders’ incompetence.

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We’re also sorry that your people will never realise any of the above, you seem to have them pretty well under control.

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We’re sorry we couldn’t save the millions of your own innocent people that were slaughtered during your “Peoples’ Revolution”.

We’re sorry we couldn’t help the pro-democracy students you mowed down in Tiannanmen Square.

We’re sorry you keep your people mired in oppression and poverty because you won’t allow them to become free-market capitalist entrepreneurs.

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Well said, VB, Saint Zero, and Tygr.
Amen.

American, by birth and choice.

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We’re sorry we bombed your embassy.

Oh, wait, we really are sorry about that.

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Meanwhile, the rest of the world is wondering why the American gov won’t admit they’re sorry their spy plane got caught.

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What I don’t understand is why it took so long to come up with the half-assed apology we DID send. What would be wrong with an insincere apology? Don’t they teach “speaking with forked tongue” at diplomat school anymore?

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Just an outsider’s view, people …

The news reports I’ve seen say the big clincher was one word in the apology: “very” as in “very sorry”.

Yeah. Right.

Somewhere, deals have ben done, people, deals have had to be done …

I’m hoping India and Pakistan don’t do a head-to-head any time now.

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Well probably because our plane didn’t “get caught”. You make it sound like it was a stealth plane on a secret mission and no one was supposed to know it was there.

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Way to call it, dewt. Lets face the facts here. We were spying and got caught. If the Chinese were spying on us in the same fashion, what would we do? We’d do the same thing and send up some planes to intimidate them and let them know we knew about them. If the same thing happened here, we’d be demanding a full apology in a heartbeat. Why? Because they were spying. Well, folks, WE were spying. We should have apologized a long time ago.