Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Surrender Now!

Ted Galen Carpenter has a new book coming out (via Mad Minerva) that will tell us how to avert a war with China over Taiwan.

If his past pronouncments on China and Taiwan are any guide, the book will be for us to surrender now while we can. As I wrote when the book was plugged several months ago:

Carpenter is dispassionately arguing that we should simply surrender to the new guy on the block--a communist tyranny that naturally wants to snuff out freedom in its neighborhood lest the virus of liberty bring down the party.

There is nothing dispassionate about just giving up.

I simply don't trust anything Carpenter writes.