We were fooled by the Sino-Soviet split and our beloved "China Card." Something occured to me. Given what has transpired since we adopted the mentality of "the China Card" I now must call into question the root causes of the Sino-Soviet split. The Sino-Soviet (apparent?) split, by causing the US to adopt the China Card mentality, has perhaps set up the US for long term defeat. Putting on my Sun Tzu hat, a fake Sino-Soviet split, even with all those deaths during the late 60s with real bullets and artillery and planes, would fit right into classic Sun Tzu tactics on the part of China, and even, perhaps, on the part of Russia. After all, both the PRC and Russia might share the booty if we are conquered.
There are many people in this country, maybe even a majority, that have views like johnmilliken. Their view is that nothing bad can happen to the US.
This is most likely due to the fact most people in this country have never really experienced hardship like the depression or WWII and obvioualsy the civil war.
This country could very well experinece an economic collapse or a major war with 100's of thousands of casulaties.
We are a bunch of babies anymore if you really think about it. Our biggest concerns is having to wait in the line at starbucks for more than 3 minutes. Look at the people crying and wringing their wrist over 1200 casualties in Iraq. There was what 35 thousand dead at Gettysburg in 2-3 days????
Sad to say but one day I fear the US people are going to get a harsh reality of the real world real quick...and they will be trembling