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[quote]The Chinese Are Our Friends
. . . despite everything you hear from the fearmongers at the Pentagon. Don’t listen to them. The Sino-American partnership will define the twenty-first century
By THOMAS P. M. BARNETT | Nov 1, 2005
The greatest threat to America’s success in its war on terrorism sits inside the Pentagon. The proponents of Big War (that cold-war gift that keeps on giving), found overwhelmingly in the Air Force and Navy, will go to any length to demonize China in their quest to justify high-tech weaponry (space wars for the flyboys) and super- expensive platforms (submarines and ships for the admirals, and bomber jets for both) in the budget struggles triggered by our costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.[/quote]
