It is the major national security issue we face. Bush and the Republicans better show some leadership on it or they're going to have their a$$es handed to them by Kerry and the Rats.
Nations can use trade as a weapon every bit as much as they can guns and bayonets and missiles and bombers. The founders realized this, and as a result they gave Congress, as the elected representatives of the people, the power to oversee and formulate trade policy. They realized the awesome power the marketplace holds, and foresaw the dangers that nations driven by an agenda that is not in our interest could present if the market were used against us.
Placing the fate of our nation in the hands of outsiders is not a prescription for national security. There will be a price to pay if we do that, and it is a price so high that it can never be reflected in any price paid, or commodity bought and sold in the marketplace.
Yes. I look at the photos Hedgetrimmer posted, of the Chinese prisoners, and think, that could be us or our children.