President Bush Renews China’s Favored-Nation Trading Status

Bush’s decision to give China most-favored-nation status makes me ashamed to be an American. When did we become a nation of carrion eaters? This lust for commercial intercourse makes America seem a nation without a shred of moral consciousness.

Is this really what we stand for in the world? Intimate relations with every type of brutal regime be it authoritarian, totalitarian, fascist, who cares what so long as it can generate power and money for American commercial interests?

So let us hear no more talk of freedom and democracy. Money talks and liberty walks. And the next time we go to war, let’s make it plain that we’re swapping American lives and body parts for the freedom to bed down with and snuggle up to the blood-soaked rulers who only yesterday were said to be the enemies of all we stand for.

LOUIS S. LYONS

Woodland Hills