Think about it. Are we going to invade China, crush them militarily and bring about a regime change that way?
Conservatives know that we took the Soviets down, "without firing a shot" as Maggie Thatcher famously said. Which may have been a bit of an hyperbolic overstatement...but we all understood her point and agreed with it: the big Third World War was successfully avoided. And we did indeed win...what was said to be "unwinnable." Constantine Menges, one of Reagan's ablest deputies in implementing his strategy to accomplish that is of unique benefit to the cause of liberty still. He also looked at the policies being pursued mindlessly with China.
Menges concluded they aren't doing anything but propping up the Communists, enabling their future aggression. We aren't getting anything like "reform." The policies you espouse have had over 17 years. Long past time for you to confess their utter failure to get the job done.
China-Communist Apologetics. It's like alcoholism. You must first admit that you've been in denial. Not facing the facts. This is really what seperates conservative foreign policy from liberal...and in taking down the communists. We need a brave gust of conservative fresh air to kick out the current policy cult. Just as we did with Reagan:
It was only with the ascendancy of President Ronald Reagan that Menges finally found a kindred spirit. He began as a CIA national intelligence officer under Director William Casey. To Reagan and Casey, it was as clear as it had been to Menges that President Truman's "containment" strategy was a failure insofar as communism was expanding across the globe.
Too bad we don't have the equivalent of an AAA for China-Communist Apologists.
That’s not going to happen.
LOL! One could hope.
Do we really stand anything to gain by engaging them in a “Cold War,” trying to thwart them at every turn while they do the same to us?
They already are "thwarting us at every turn". Responding appropriately seems called for.
Do we want to play the arms race game with them?
There you go again. As Reagan said of the Soviets when he took over to rectify Jimmy Carter's failed Liberal policies of appeasement, which genuflected constantly to alleged 'Arms race spiral futility' Reagan observed: "Only THEY are racing."
Reagan and Weinberger commenced a great arms build-up that we are still coasting on the benefits of... Alarmingly, the current administration continues an extremely dangerous and unwise "Peace Dividend" unilateral disarmament campaign of the previous two administrations. Heedless of the fact that China is going the other way.
I don’t see any benefit in any of that for us.
Who's the "Us"? Are you really an American? Are you really for our liberty? Our national security? It seems you have some explaining to do. And you're already starting 20 touchdowns behind.
Communism will fail there because it is an impossible “utopian” system that cannot work anywhere for the long haul.
Your history lesson is incomplete. It can and does "work" (defined as keeping communism in power) so long as propped up by the dupes amongst the Western capitalists.
Lenin rescued his revolution by the "New Economic Program" ...by which he suckered capitalists to "come back" into Russia. He even get Henry Ford to invest heavily in Russia! Providing Stalin his industrial capability for the tanks which beat Germany...and menaced the West for over 50 years. And now we are doing the same in spades with the heirs of Mao. Leave them to their own devices, as Reagan successfully did to the Soviets, THEN their "impossible" system might actually have to confront its limitations. Until then, good luck.
Reagan didn't just happen to get lucky. He understood precisely the weaknesses of Communism, which apparently today's financiers and pop-culturists don't comprehend, and he understood that it would take a multi-prong effort to take them down, directly clashing with and declaring war against its ideology, its enmity, and its ability to catch up by trade with us...he shut that escape hatch down. He delivered on his promise to shove their system into the dustbin of history.
Unfortunately, Reagan's successors, not knowing what he knew, or why and how he did it, they have let the Chi-Comms up off the mat where they could have been kept pinned. As Ken Timmerman notes of Menges' last observations:
The son of German refugees from World War II, he had a special understanding of appeasement, and blasted the Clinton administration for caving in to Communist China. But in a just-completed book-length manuscript called "2008: The Preventable War," he was scarcely gentler toward the Bush administration for failing to recognize the threat of growing military and strategic cooperation between Russia and Communist China.
Indeed. How right he was. And now they are seeking to destroy us... I commend the research, warnings, and recommended solutions this great patriot left us:
Publisher's NotesIn a book that is as certain to be as controversial as it is meticulously researched, a former special assistant to the president for National Security Affairs and senior official of the Central Intelligence Agency shows that the U.S. could be headed toward a nuclear face-off with communist China within four years.
And it definitively reveals how China is steadily pursuing a stealthy, systematic strategy to attain geopolitical and economic dominance first in Asia and Eurasia, then possibly globally, within the next twenty.
Using recently declassified documents, statements by Russian and Chinese leaders largely overlooked in the Western media, and groundbreaking analysis and investigative work, Menges explains China's plan thoroughly, exposing:
China's methods of economic control.China's secret alliance with Russia and other anti-America nations, including North Korea.
China's growing military and nuclear power-over 90 ICBMs, many of them aimed at U.S. cities.
How China and Russia have been responsible for weaponizing terrorists bent on harming the U.S.
Damage caused by China's trade tactics (since 1990, we've lost 8 million jobs thanks to China trade surpluses).
According to Menges, unless we take action now to stem the tide of China's exploding authority in the world, America's very near future could be very bleak indeed.