They'd better do it. If China can do it, they'd better damn well be able to do it. How embarrassing would that be?
But the U.S. has done something like this before, as has the former Soviet Union.
Nevertheless, they'd better not mess this up, or they'll look bad.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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