And, "Cheney rips China’s anti-satellite weapons test."

(It's always humorous to note that US military build-ups are for peaceful purposes, even when attacking other countries.)

Looking for a balance to the US, I believe the world is looking to China to become a superpower. And as China competes more vigorously for the world's resources, the US will get more and more defensive, and offensive.

Iraq was a nation-state, more or less one entity with which to deal. Now it's a million, all with their own agendas. A million times harder to deal with, in fact impossible.

And now that the US has revealed itself more as a child with a gun more than a proponent of all that's good, the world will increasingly deal with China.

Richard Nixon would have understood. So would Kissinger, but he was called in to late, after Iraq was broken up and unsalvageable.

Arf