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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The most obvious culprit is China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They wanted us to see the missile launch, and see how close to California they could pull it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are very irritated over our new QE2 fed monetary policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will basically rip them off as holders of our debt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A few years ago, they threatened to nuke Los Angeles over some other much less significant little issue they were unhappy about.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So when they saber-rattle, they seem to think of California.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our officials got the message, but they don’t want to tell us, because if our public finds out, it will intensify China’s message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More importantly, it would raise a call for some kind of response to China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moreover, if our country publicly called China on the launch, they could just deny it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, if we recovered pieces of a Chinese missile, they could say that we staged it to make China look bad.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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