Bush In A China Strop.

Give your chuckle muscles a rest and just ponder this for a moment. It's something else to file under "S" for "Shurely shome mishtake?"
I listened to two discussions today, one on the Devil's Lantern, the other on the wireless. The first featured some apologist for Saudi Arabia who kept banging on about how spiffing and friendly the country was, how it stood for all that was right in the world and how its near-perfection explained why the USA and Britain fell over themselves to buddy up to and protect this supposed island of sanity in a sea of Islamic lunacy.
The wireless chat featured some Yank who drawled on about how evil the Chinese were and how China posed a major threat to the West and so inter-continental missiles had to be aimed at it.
Now, maybe I've got this wrong, but isn't Saudi Arabia a focal point for Islamic fundamentalism and Moslem terrorists? Where is Osama bin Laden from? Whose vast wealth funds Al Quaida? Where are 50 per cent of all "insurgents" who have so far carried out violent attacks in Iraq from? Do you know a good Saudi Arabian take-away near you? Name one good Saudi Arabian pub.
On the other hand, how many attacks have the Chinese launched on the UK mainland of late? Name one violent, Buddhist fundamentalist. Which countries have the Chinese invaded of late. Who is the king of China?
Cast your minds back to when Bush first got elected/staged his coup.Do you remember, he started jumping up and down, claiming that the Chinese were intent on world domination and needed to be kept in check? He was just about to get the troops saddled up when deranged Islamists distracted his attention. Well, Bush has fucked up majorly in Iraq and desperately wants everyone to forget about it, the North Koreans won't have a fight and so it's back to the Chinese. Orwell wrote that the capitalist bosses have to have perpetual war to keep everyone occupied, afraid, subservient and making them money. There's a lot to be said for that argument but it has never really been put into practice before because the electorate has, until now, been too smart.
What then is the difference between Saudi Arabia and China? Why do the Bush/New Labour regimes hate the Chinese and want to start a Cold War with them but love the Saudis and fight to defend the king who is bleeding his populace dry at about the same rate as he is pocketing the billions from his country's main natural resource? Go on, take a wild guess!!
The future doesn't look good, does it? I mean, even if the boffins manage to make oil obsolete by developing effective alternative sources of power, what then? If wind power takes off then we'll all be toadying up to Eskimos. If solar power is the way forward then the Bedouins will be running the show. If hydropower is the answer then we'll all be going Dutch. There's no way out.
My head's hurting again so I'm going to have a lie down.