I saw a headline on FOX News this morning that said, “Congress wants answers on Chinese spy balloon.”
The balloon, obviously not the typical Party City model, entered our air space over the Aleutian Islands. It cruised along for days recording information on American military installations and anything else the Chinese wanted to know, winding up over South Carolina before heading out to sea.
On the surface, the problem and solution looked easy. Problem: a Chinese spy apparatus had invaded our air space. Solution: shoot it down.
The Biden administration had excuses for not doing that, of course. They said at first it was undetected. A big balloon carrying spy equipment capable of recording and sending information? Where is our Early Warning System?
Then they claimed that they didn’t want to shoot it down because pieces of it might fall on people in Alaska. I’ve been to Alaska. You could drop Minneapolis on it and not hit anybody.
Then, after the device had been floating for days across the American mainland, Biden claimed that he had told the military to shoot it down when he first learned of it. If that is true, our so-called Commander-in-Chief doesn’t hold much sway with his Defense Department because they ignored his order. Could he have been lying? Again?
Now that the balloon has been disposed of, Biden’s administration has asked the Chinese if they could please not do that again.
The Chinese have, in very diplomatic terms, told us to buzz off and mind our own business and that they will do as they please. And if we don’t like it, they will take further action against us.
And now Congress wants to know why a foreign power thinks they have a right to basically invade the country with a spying device but our own government did not retaliate. After all, sending a spy balloon over a sovereign nation is almost signaling that China might like to attack us.
Well, my goodness. If they’d just ask me, I’ve got all the answers as to why this happened, and the reasons are deeper— or at least more interesting— than Congress thinks.
First of all, the Chinese Communist government has been allowed to purchase a great many properties in this country, and I imagine they believed they have a right to check on their investments. If they picked up a little information about our defense capabilities as they guided the balloon over various military bases, so what?
They were also sending just one little balloon over this time to check on the nation’s resolve to protect its sovereign borders. After all, they may want to purchase—or requisition— more property in this country, and they want to know how much of a fuss we’ll put up.
Biden can’t get too huffy with the Chinese, since he isn’t resolved to protect any other border. And, the Chinese seem to have been the source of much of the Biden family fortune, thanks to Hunter Biden’s pedaling of “the Big Guy’s” influence to them. If Big Guy makes them mad, they may tell him where to stuff his influence and cut off his monthly Chinese welfare checks. Then who’s gonna support the Little Guy’s drug habit?
Of course Congress didn’t get many answers about the balloon because they wasted last week being distracted by the entertaining antics of the Squad, a group of young minority group congresswomen protesting the removal of their Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. As a Muslim, Omar is an avowed and outspoken enemy of Israel, and she was dismissed from the committee for anti-semitic and derogatory comments about that long-time American ally—not the best move on a committee where diplomacy and maturity are required.
But when she was axed, the Squad went berserk, screaming and squealing their usual objections— racial prejudice, gender prejudice— anything but the truth: Omar’s unfitness for the job.
The most entertaining performance came from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Jumping up and down, spitting, arms flailing, AOC almost achieved lift-off several times, raving to a dramatic end in which she slammed her notes down on the podium and stalked off. Wonder how many times she had to practice that finale?
Imagine the reaction of the wily Chinese: “Ha! If that’s how they operate, we’re in like Flynn! We’re more than a match for a hyperventilating, emotionally over developed adolescent drama queen pitching a hissy fit!”
Well, Congress will do what it will do, I guess.
But I look at this from a different angle. My great fear is that Biden and Co. may make the Chinese so mad that they’ll stop sending all these cheap clothes over here with that ever-present label, “Made in China.”
Then what am I gonna wear? Can’t we put up with a spy balloon or two to keep the bargains coming?
