Tandra Page 1067, International Poker

Created on 11/29/2009

by Hanther

The god king is returned from his China junket and is back in the White House passing quality time playing basketball and watching video playbacks of himself on big screen television and there have been no big news releases praising his many wondrous accomplishments from the most recent Presidential sight seeing tour. Indeed, the only breaking news regarding the Chosen One’s face off with the Chinese big wigs is that nothing much of substance was accomplished this trip, but the One laid the important ground work for future friendship upon which matters of international cooperation can be contemplated to mutual benefit in the future.

Foolish me! I would have thought the ground work for brotherhood would have been sufficiently provided way back in 1949 when the Truman Administration betrayed Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek to the advantage of Communist butcher Mao Tse-tung and acted as midwife to enslavement of China by Mao’s Red thugs and the subsequent murder of seventy million Chinese people. Apparently, collusion in the establishment of the regime that holds to its credit the greatest mass murder in human history is not enough to convince the Chinese thugs of unconditional friendship and unwavering loyalty. A simple long distance phone call from the Oval Office apparently wasn’t enough to reaffirm servility either. As American newscaster Gabrial Heater said in similar context of Neville Chamberlain’s famous 1937 visit to Munich for some quality face time with Adolf Hitler, “Chamberlain had to go in person because it’s difficult to lick a man’s boots by phone.”

This is a take on the One’s China Junket you won’t see on the state run Main Stream Media. The state run Media are all in a dither over the One’s most recent international achievements, but the Chinese Officials are not party to Washington’s self induced delusions, nor do they have any plans to indulge in any of the Administration’s warm and fuzzy feel good charades in the immediate future. The Chinese leadership took one look at the One and knew exactly what it is they are dealing with and, back stage away from the docile American Media, they laughed themselves silly.

An AP photograph accompanying one of the reports of the One’s China junket speaks volumes of the Chinese evaluation of the American figurehead. It is a photograph of the American President and Chinese President Hu Jintao. The One stands basking in the warmth of his own glow while the Chinese official is shown casting a glance in his direction. The Chinese are said to be inscrutable, but there is nothing inscrutable about the expression on the Chinese official's face. It is a look of pure and open contempt! It is as though the Chinese is asking himself, "Which cotton field did the Americans drag this guy out of?"

Time was, a foreign dignitary might not be especially fond of the American visiting him, but he was careful not to make his annoyance known. The Chinese dignitary in this photograph is under no such constraints! Why would he bother to conceal his contempt from the Chosen One? What could possibly be the downside? What is the One gonna do, wet his pants?

As happens, the One remains completely oblivious, so caught up is he in the moment of his own self.

And what of the remainder of the Chinese junket. The big moment for the One appears to have been his stop over at a military base where the soldiers came out to give him a rousing cheer. It was a great photo op, as the One proclaimed rejoicing. Otherwise, foreign heads of state took one look at the American Messiah and proceeded to play him like a fiddle. The Chinese duck walked him to their agenda, setting him up as a trophy where his appearance could make them look good and sending him out to the boonies to read his teleprompter speeches when his presence became annoying. When they had finished showing him off, they unceremoniously sent him on his way. The Chinese are well aware of the American admonition that guests, like fish, begin to have an unpleasant aroma after three days and the One was beginning to stink up the place in a way seventy million dead Chinese never had.

The analogy does not hold in all ways, but international relations can be compared to a game of poker. When you sit down to a game of poker, you may face off with good friends, people you don’t especially like and total strangers. Whatever your relation to the other players, the rules of the game remain the same. It matters not if you bet your life savings against the total stranger, the guy you don’t like, or your best friend, if you play a bad hand your funds are gone. The only small concession is, should you lose to your best friend, he might be persuaded after the game to loan you cab fare home.

I am no expert on poker myself, but I know enough not to play. Americans have sent to an international game of poker a fool who has not the first clue to the game. He appears to believe things will go differently, the rules will be altered, if all the players become his friends, so his strategy is apparently to debase America to the point the other players no longer feel threatened and will thus revise the rules to allow for the One’s charm and humility. But the rules don’t change and the international players are looking at the One in the same manner as the Chinese, with open contempt. They see the One not as a friend who should benefit from international affirmative action, but as a chicken ripe for the plucking. When this chicken is plucked clean, it is unlikely the other players at the table will even loan him cab fare home.

Never forget Lexington and Concord!

Hanther

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