We have apologized for the incident when there was no need for an apology and now we have made further apologies for our State Department saying we were cutting our military ties to China. I say, let's cut them. China is a communist country with a record of human rights atrocities that we cannot even imagine. Chinese President Jiang has repeatedly stated that China has done nothing wrong in that area. In a country of 1.2 billion people I guess killing off a few for speaki ng out for democracy doesn't mean much.
Diplomacy has it's place, but too often the United States backs down.
Thumbs Up to the crew of the spy plane for enduring the ordeal with honor. Thumbs Down to the U.S. military for purchasing berets from the Chinese. It said that the Army's top general has determined that U.S. troops would not wear berets made in China or berets made with Chinese contents. The Army said it was recalling previously distributed berets, received from China this year, and would dispose of them. Gas prices are on the rise again.