CHINESE WISHES

You'd think the Chicoms would pay attention to their culture's repository of proverbial wisdom.  Specifically to the ancient Chinese proverb:  Be careful what you wish for – because you just might get it.

More than anything else in the world, the Chicoms wanted to host the Olympic Games in their capital of Beijing.  It was to be their great coming-out party to the world, the ultimate showcase of Chicom success on the global stage, proof of their moral acceptance as members of the entire international community.

So they are getting what they wished for.  But now it's looking like their dreams of prestige and glory may become a nightmare.  It's not just that the Beijing Olympics of 2008 has started being compared to Hitler's Berlin Olympics of 1936. 

It's that the candidate best able to skillfully exploit Chicom vulnerabilities during next summer may be the one who gets elected president next November.

It's interesting that the Left is out in front on this.  The Lefties' favorite humanitarian cause these days is not, of course, innocent Iraqis being slaughtered by proto-hominids suiciding themselves to a whorehouse heaven, but a place of sandy desolation in remotest Sudan – Darfur (see The Fraud of Darfur, November 2006).

Wherever there is a dictatorship in the world, from Burma to North Korea to Iran to Zimbabwe to Venezuela, the Chicoms are there offering friendship and support.  Sudan is no exception.  As Beijing is the biggest international supporter of Khartoum, which is held responsible for tribal genocidal mayhem in Darfur, the Lefties are bullseyeing Beijing.

They have figured out the Olympics are the Chicoms' greatest vulnerability.  So lefty celebrities like Mia Farrow (far more famous for being Frank Sinatra's wife 40 years ago and Woody Allen's girlfriend than her incompetence as an actress) are demanding that director Stephen Spielberg resign from designing opening ceremonies of what she calls the "Genocide Olympics."

The entire global network of human-rights activists is now smelling Chicom blood in the Olympic waters.  Paris-based Reporters Without Borders has organized a Boycott Beijing 2008 movement:  "No Olympics without democracy!"

They are asking entire countries to boycott the 2008 Games, like 30 nations including the US did during the Moscow Olympics in 1980. 

Countries denying their athletes a lifetime chance to compete in the world's premier competition seems unlikely barring a Chicom version of the 1980 catalyst, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.  Besides, not coming to Beijing means not having the world media pay attention to any protest you make in Beijing.

That is, these Olympics will provide an irresistible spotlight for any athlete who wants to demand a Free Tibet, denounce Chicom repression, condemn China as the world's greatest polluter and contributor to global warming, plea for religious and political freedom, or call for freeing prisoners in the Chinese Gulag. 

What are the Chicoms going to do to him or her after they unfurl a Free Tibet banner at the opening ceremonies or on the medal stand?  They can arrest and jail activists who filmed the Free Tibet on Mount Everest video at Rongbuk (Everest base camp) – but any threats or heavy-handedness (much less actual beatings or imprisonment) at the Olympics will backfire very badly. 

Yet the louder and angrier the Chicoms complain, the more it will egg Olympic protestors on.

This in turn will encourage demonstrations and protests by Chinese dissidents and democracy activists in Beijing and throughout China – for even with a censored internet and television, it will be very hard to keep the Chinese people from knowing about foreign athlete protests at the Games.

The Beijing Olympics looks likely to be a catastrophic PR disaster for the Chicoms – and note again, it will be precipitated by the Left (just wait ‘till the Glowarmers jump in).  The Left is much better than the Right at smelling weakness and attacking it like wolves or sharks.

Which is why Democrat candidates like Mrs. Clinton and Barack Hussein may steal a Chinese march on their GOP competitors.  And they are going to get help from Pelosi Galore.

Remember How Conservatives Are Going To Get In Bed With Nancy Pelosi from last December?

By holding hearings on Chicom espionage, slave labor, trade restrictions, et al, she will focus on the GOP being in bed with Country Club Corporate America opposing any efforts to improve human rights in China

Unless Republican candidates wake up and smell the opportunity to wrench their party from control by Business Roundtable folks who only care about cheap labor in China (and illegal cheap labor from Mexico), Shrillary and Barack Hussein will eat them up in the summer of '08.

The Pubbies have got to see what a marvelous gift the worldwide left is giving us regarding the Chicom Olympics – a chance to redirect world anger away from America and towards China.

For much of the planet, we are the world's #1 villain.  We can try to block the animosity, reject it and stare it down – which will make everyone madder, more supportive of America's most evil enemies just because they are our enemies.

We can go the grovel route, apologize and appease, beg the world to forgive our sins of success and prosperity, which will make it despise us and want to damage us more.

Or we can go the aikido route – the martial art that doesn't block an opponent's energy then counterpunches, but accepts and redirects an opponents' energy, using an opponents' own energy against him and away from you.

The Chicom Olympics can provide a glorious exercise of aikido geopolitics – replacing us with China as the World's Bad Guy.

Couldn't happen to better folks than the Chicoms.  I just hope whichever Pubbie ends on top of the February primaries learns aikido faster than the Dems.