Ran across some commenters at Michael Turton's site asking for the original link to a piece by a Chinese Communist Party militarist. (Fella by the handle of Long Tao demands that the People's "Liberation" Army Navy initiate a bloody war-for-oil against Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea.)
Anyways, here's the original:
Time to teach those around the South China Sea a lesson
Which reminds one of the Aesop's fable:
A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, decided not to attack the lamb, but to find some reason to justify to the Lamb why the Wolf had the right to eat him. So the Wolf said:
“Sir Lamb, last year you greatly insulted me.”
“But,” bleated the Lamb mournfully, “I was not born last year!”
Then the Wolf said, “You feed in my pasture.”
“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Again the Wolf said, “You drink water from my well.”
“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”
Upon which the Wolf seized the Lamb and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my accusations.”
Moral: The tyrant will always find an excuse for his tyranny.
(Wolf-in-Panda's-clothing image from Nelson Minar)
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UPDATE: Here's a blast from the not-so-distant past. Taiwan's Chinese Communist-funded newspaper, the China Post, argues that Vietnam is solely to blame for tensions in the South China Sea.
Yeah, you heard me: Vietnam. Not China. (Please don't ask the paper to speak ill of Communist governments that lavish it with heaps of advertorial money...)
It's true that Vietnam is trying to manufacture a war scare over the Spratly Islands, a large archipelago that rides atop very rich oil reserves in the South China Sea.
The way the paper makes common cause with their ultra-nationalist brethren across the Taiwan Strait should raise a few eyebrows, too:
We are positive that no armed conflict will occur over the Spratlys. Despite the hollow saber-rattling, Vietnam and the Philippines have no stomach for a war against Taiwan and China. [emphasis added]
Taiwan AND China. Interesting proposal for a military alliance there.
Yet another reason why Taiwan will never be offered F-16C/D fighters...
