Rudy:
Aside from terrorism, the second most important thing I'm worried about is American education. The global economy - a China where it's more likely we'll have to economically compete with them instead of go to war with them.
Americans don't like war. We're not a war-like people. We engage in war because we have to and sometimes we wait until the last minute like WWII.
Americans want to sell you something. We want to sell you a product. Coke, Pepsi, McDonald's or technology or new medical procedures. Those are the kinds of things we want to do. We don't mind buying from China but we want to sell too.
aaargh! tech difficulties....