U.S. Relations With China
President Bush is reported as worried, then gleeful, about catching a fish on the same page that 5,000 black South Africans protest the asinine policy of apartheid by white South Africans (front-page, Sept. 4). Meanwhile, we read of Bush Administration officials lining up with Chinese leaders minimizing the Tian An Men Square massacres and the massive repressions since as merely a short-term aberration.
Regimes that maintain power by massively denying reality and by forcibly imposing this denial and distortion (pure lies) on their own citizens (and try to do the same with the rest of the world) are not sane.
And administrations that practice dissembling, deception, and denial of reality (just a little bit of “spin” here and there) cannot see the craziness, the brokenness, the insanity of other leaderships. The age of the pervasive lie and the era of moral wimps.
HAROLD SAMUEL SPEAR
Pasadena
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