"However, why go to war when the United States under leaders like Carter, Clinton and the Dimorats are so willing to just give away what they covet."
I hate to say it, but too many Republicans are doing the same thing in the name of "Free Trade." Which is laughable, because Red China isn't a free country.
Same thing they did in the 1930's when they starved the War Department budget until soldiers had to train with wooden guns, while the GOP's Business Wing (aka the Rockefeller/Dole/Bush Wing) were busting a gut selling Gulf Coast oil to the Nazis and scrap iron to the Japanese. We saw some of that good American scrap iron later, when doctors took Jap shrapnel out of American soldiers, and according to legend, American trademarks like "Singer" were still legible on some of the shrapnel.