There's little upstairs at the KMT

[dArKeR]

The legislative elections are fewer than 80 days away, so we might have expected the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) would have come up with something bold in policy to sway those voters who have, under Lien Chan's (??) abject mismanagement, been leaving it in droves. But all we saw was Lien telling the party faithful that calling Taiwan "Taiwan" would result in war with China. Calling Taiwan "China," however, would ensure peace. What Taiwan needs, according to Lien, is to negotiate a peace treaty with China. Apparently this is to be negotiated between the two governments "as equals." And it will guarantee peace for 30 years.

What might we make of this? For a start, let us note that trying to scare people with threats of war is a piece of nonsense that didn't work in the presidential election in 2000 (remember the sonar commercial) -- nor has it worked in any election since. Lien, like the Bourbons, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

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