Look at Iraq. The Dems have hurt our effort there tremendously."
I think in the (probably) far future, it will come out that the far left anti-american elements of US politics have been covertly funded by China this last decade. The 1996 election and chinese funds for the DNC is pretty well known, but I bet they find a way to help out any pol who will try to cripple US foreign policy, defence spending, etc. I would imagine many of the recipients have no idea where the money is coming from.
I am not sure why this is such a radical idea. You would think the '96 election showed that it could be and WAS done on a fairly large scale, so it is naive to think they simply stopped. I am sure we support useful candidates in countries that have elections as well.
As Iraq has shown, the Left and the media will not support a war or attack unless one of our cities is blown off the map first.
And here's another little piece of information that might give perspective to us all...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1655519/posts
Iran and China chatting ...