Letter: Why wasn’t China boycotted?

Monday, April 14, 2003 | 9:19 a.m.

Taking the lead are the usual media suspects such as learned ignoramus George Will and congenital liar William Safire. Then there our those "intellectual giants" out there who are taking matters into their own hands like boycotting French products or renaming french fries freedom fries. And to think all this vilification directed at a Western democracy, a land of high culture and historical ground zero for the Enlightenment.

Gee, when China knocked our RC-135 aircraft out of the sky and then held the air crew hostage while they scored propaganda points, I don't seem to recall these "intellectual giants" advocating the boycott of Chinese products or renaming Chinese fortune cookies freedom fortune cookies. Maybe these "intellectual giants" decided to overlook that ugly incident, because, after all, China does have one of the most efficient totalitarian police states on earth.

Oh, yes, you know those cheesy plastic American flags some are flying from their gas-guzzling SUVs? I wonder if those are made in China?

KELLY KRIEG

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