Posted on 07/07/2015 10:30:26 AM PDT by Theoria
On Monday, Lindsey Graham announced his presidential candidacy in a speech devoted mostly to foreign policy. He mentioned variations of the word “Islam” six times. He said “the nuclear ambitions of the radical Islamists who control Iran” constitute the “biggest threat” to the United States. He twice emphasized his devotion to Israel. And once, about halfway through his remarks, he mentioned China.
In American politics today, especially in the GOP, Graham’s priorities are typical. Two years ago, during Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel’s contentious seven-and-a-half-hour grilling by the Armed Services Committee, senators mentioned Israel 178 times and Iran 171 times. The number of references to China? Five.
The emphasis is odd because it’s likely that the “biggest threat” to America’s national security is neither Iran nor “radical Islam” writ large. It is China.
The Islamic extremists in ISIS and other violent jihadist groups kill between 10 and 20 Americans a year. That number could spike dramatically, of course, as it did on 9/11. But for many years now, the trend has been toward lone-wolf-style attacks where very small numbers of Americans die.
For its part, Iran is a midsize power with a noxious regime. It aspires to dominate the Middle East, but it is likely to fail in that endeavor. It’s likely to fail in part because the other powerful countries in the region (Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey), backed by the United States, want it to fail. And it’s likely to fail because, as a Shiite power in a mostly Sunni region inflamed by Sunni-Shiite conflict, Iranian domination doesn’t have much appeal.
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Did anyone say Chicken Hawks ?
With Russian support.
Hillary Clinton is a bigger threat than China, Russia, and Islam combined. ISIS didn’t give us Obamacare, China didn’t destroy marriage. America is dying from the inside out.
As is the Obama regime, the Socialist/HomoFascista DemoRats, and the Lamestream Media containing the author and the magazine.
America was dying before Clinton came into the picture.
No politician will save this country.
That’s definitely true - but Obama/Clinton appear to be the tipping point.
In China?
Lindsey Graham...Who?
What kind of idiot wants to start a war with his banker? Wars are started to deal with intransigent borrowers. Oh, wait - that’s us... :)
No, we're dying by poisoning, from the outside in. Remember how the old king died in Hamlet? With poison drops in his ear? That's what we're getting, from what was called under Khrushchev and Brezhnev "KGB Active Measures". They directed the Communist writers and screenwriters (Walter Duranty, I.F. Stone, Dalton Trumbo), the Communist actors (Will Geer -- boyfriend of gay Red Harry Hay), the Communist gays (Harry Hay again), the New Left (SDS, as in "Bill and Hillary", the Mobe, the New Mobe, the Weathermen), the Old Left (Communist Party of America, CPUSA, Angela Davis, Susan Sontag ["the Caucasian race is the cancer of the planet" -- thanks, Susan, good to see you, too], Frank Marshall Davis and his acolyte Obama, Valerie Jarrett), and the World Council of Churches crowd.
Not to mention prominent voices in Media.
Joe McCarthy's "253 names", as Ann Coulter has pointed out, was pretty accurate (he was getting his information from the Venona Project, I think), but as she points out for us, Tail Gunner Joe was a few dozen names short.
Maybe 50 years ago, but it isn’t foreign money or foreign intel driving the left anymore, it is a native movement funded by California and New York.
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