China is the dragon that wants to burn our ass.I don't trust the chicoms anymore than I would trust clinton in a room full of female interns.
The sad fact is that when or if we go to war with China it will be over in days
If that scenerio were to take place, I would pray that me and mine were at ground zero.
I assess China the same way I do Clinton. No illusions about their nobility, but a realistic assessment of their motives. Clinton doesn't want to get rid of interns, because there'd be no one left for him to ... well, choose your own verb here.
China's leadership doesn't want to get rid of the US, or alienate it too much, because they'd have no market to sell to so they could maintain double-digit annual economic growth and keep their own people from slitting their throats. Tienanmen was 17 years ago. The ChiComs couldn't cut off information then, and it'd be much more difficult now.
One of my favorite characters in history is Gen. Dietrich von Choltidz. He was the Nazi general in charge of the occupation of Paris. He had charges wired throughout the city, from the Louvre to the Eiffel Tower. When the order came to destroy Paris, he refused. He surrendered the city to the Allies rather than destroy it.
Cholditz fled, was captured by the Nazis and imprisoned as a traitor. When the Reich fell., he was captured and imprisoned by the Allies as a Nazi. Dude couldn't win for losing; he got no love from either side. He might have been a worthless a----le for most of his life, but in that moment he made the right call and was ruthlessly punished for it.
But because he made that choice, priceless works of art survived. Works that have outlived Churchill. Roosevelt and Stalin. Works that will outlive you and me.
If you have a glass in hand, raise it to Dietrich von Choltidz. Yes, he did great wrongs, but he found it in himself to do a great right at a crucial moment. What is Christianity without the hope of redemption? What is the journey without the revelation on the road to Damascus?