Walk Away

This is just plain silly - trying to link the random killings of Chinese school children to Chinese government intent, policies and corruption. We ourselves have adults killing and preying on children. We have sanctified abortion as a human right. Children routinely kill other children on the streets of our urban centers. Mothers drown their children in bathtubs. Children are left in cars parked in the sun with the windows rolled up while their parents drink in bars, gamble in casinos or commit adultery in shady hotel rooms. Students have been known to turn automatic weapons on their classmates in school cafeterias. Yet nobody takes the leap of blaming any of our sacred cow institutions (except to speciously promote the politically charged gun control agenda).

Wherever there are people such incidents are bound to occur. My sister-in-law was murdered by a rapist in New Delhi where she worked as a medical (speech) specialist. My sister took her own life in Switzerland where she worked as a dentist. These incidents were regarded as personal tragedies, adequately borne by a narrowly confined circle of grieving survivors. None of it was ascribed to American imperialism, capitalism, socialism, government corruption or jihadi recruitment and incitement.

There is plenty of legitimate evidence that indicts the unelected, self-serving crony government of communist China. These five or six incidents chronicled thus far in a nation that big may justifiably qualify as ‘copycat’, but does not translate into a significant trend.

I understand the desire to besmirch and heap insult and blame on someone regarded as distasteful. I understand the desire to overlook human shortcomings in order to defend someone whom we insist on admiring. The U.S. media has been doing the latter for years as pertains to our two most recent Democrat presidents. At the same time they can’t wait for a card-carrying tea party member to fart, so they can classify the entire movement as uncouth.

Blaming the Chinese government for what essentially amounts to no more than a ‘crime’ (or crimes) is just as bad as what our own state-controlled media is doing. And it’s disingenuous to boot. On one hand, we refuse to classify China as an enemy; while, on the other, it gives us the satisfaction to editorialize about what could just as easily apply to us. In this way we can touch upon the true nature of our misgivings without the risk of breaking something which we obviously regard as fragile or sacred. When China responds with its own list of sins as these might apply to America, we simply declare a stalemate and walk away.