chen again

maybe the whole thing doesn't speak so well for us after all. we might speculate that hillary & co. basically just wanted this up out their face, and would take almost any superficial apparent deal to make that happen. sadly i often have kantian intuitions, and i do think that chen's life and well-being, once they were put in the charge of the u.s. gov, made an absolute, an infinite, claim. i would fight to preserve them under threat of war, trade or otherwise, etc.