Re: China...
You said:
>"China makes a terrifying adversary to face in as soon as a decade."
Well, then we'd better start playing NICE NOW, rather than positioning ourselves as "We'll nuke those slant eyes to kingdom come if they try and take Taiwan!"
It may make GW sound fearless and testosterone-laden, but his arrogance and one-upman-ship
puts us all in peril for a first strike.
GW doesn't care.......he has a bunker, and all his cabinet can live underground and rule the world from there (what's left of it). I hear he like to give the mad pinky salute.