Despite all of their efforts to impose tariffs that make it cost-prohibitive for us to trade there, we still insist on rolling out the red carpet for the import of their goods to this country. I'm sorry that as a nation of consumers, we've sacrificed conscience for cost. We've fortified China's military by purchasing products that are made in China, some of which are produced with slave labor, child labor, and under working conditions that are so deplorable they constitute human rights violations by any nation's standards. Americans would rather subsidize the economy of a nation which seems intent on buying or stealing our own military intelligence for the sole purpose of using it against us than to pay a little more for a product that benefits the economy and people of this nation. I'm sorry that we can't see that all the free trade in the world won't make friends of our enemies.
People change themselves, and only when they want to be changed.
I'm sorry that when we operate under a code of honor militarily, and abide by an international rule book, that we are not afforded the same honor in return. I'm sorrier still that we continue to believe that we will be, despite all the evidence to the contrary. There are ample resources here and plenty of couples who would willingly adopt these children if the process were not so harrowing and costly. I'm sorry that in our altruism, we are often ignorant. We turn away from the development and protection of our own resources in the name of environmental responsibility and for the sake of perpetuating a globally interdependent economy, and then scoff when it costs us so much to heat our homes and fuel our vehicles.