1. Rights and Wrongs.
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COMPUTER industry , *CHILDREN , *NATIONAL security - Abstract
The article presents a response by the author on comments made on his article "The Three Stooges."Stooges." The author argued that the three U.S. congressmen who raised a national security alarm in response to International Business Machines Corp.'s (IBM's) plan to sell its PC business to China's Lenovo Group were engaged in legislative buffoonery. The reaction from some readers was intense. "You are just another silver-haired corporate lackey, toeing the corporate line," one wrote. It occurred to the author as he watched the little girl in the IBM commercial that a lot of these readers are probably irate about IBM supplying technology to educate Chinese children. After all, educated children grow up to be skilled adults who might very well be compelled to join China's military forces. The author has no doubt that many Americans contend that the national security would be better protected by withholding the means for Chinese children to be educated. The author opined that a little girl on a farm in China has just as much right to an education as a little girl on a farm in Iowa.
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- 2005