[dennisw]

I am not sure that the PRC wants no part...just that the timing may be off.

The ChiComs like the death of a thousand cuts. They like to see us flailing about in Iraq. They like to see us wasting/spending military resources in Iraq. Chaos is the friend of China. They like the chaos NKorea and Hizbulla make. Plus they get oil at a discounted price from Iran. Bob Baer was on TV last night saying he was in Tehran recently. Saw lots of Chinese dining at the restaurants. That these Chinese looked to be military technicians. Came right out and said the way it works is China gets oil and Iran gets weapons.

(I still support our role in Iraq)

[Jeff Head]

I support our role in Iraq and Afghanistan too.

In all of this, as dire as the threat from Iran and Syria might be, we also have to be aware of and prepared for the Chinese manuevering, which is forging alliances and understandings around the world against our best interests, from Venezuela and South America, to the Carrabian, to Africa, in the Mid-East and throughout Asia.

I believe the administraition is aware of it, but feel sometime they lean to far to the globalist philosophy of empowering China with money and manufacturing in the hopes that they become too dependent on it and their people will not let them risk it.

I do not believe the ChiComms are beset by any such notions. We are their target and they will bleed us until they think they can take us down IMHO, while building their own position up to a point to try and replace us.