Anybody else concerned?

“Indeed, I have moved from being curious to being genuinely concerned.” So said Admiral Mike Mullen recently about the Chinese.

Gordon G. Chang writes:

'It’s about time the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in public, expressed disquiet about the Chinese military buildup. For decades, American flag officers, many of them from the Navy, have remained optimistic about America’s military relations with China. And after every Chinese hostile act — even those constituting direct attacks on the United States, such as the March 2009 attempt to interfere with the Impeccable in the South China Sea — American admirals have either remained silent or said they were “perplexed” or “befuddled” by Beijing’s intentions.'


There is an old axiom of war that you prepare not for what you think the enemy will do but what a potential enemy is capable of doing. After half a century of Maoism now "reformed" into a state that exports for cash to support its one-party hegemony over a billion people (national socialism in everything but name), why should we expect the Chinese to be our allies? They might not be our enemies, but our interests re any major issue are not common. Have we thought out what we would do if China invaded any of its neighbors? I know we have plans on a hard drive somewhere, but are we mentally prepared to face a military crisis in the Far East while we are still deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Yes, I was born to be a hawkish backbencher. Liberty takes centuries to develop in habit and constitution, but slavery can occur after one night of slumber. I am not a soldier, but I have learned from practicing law that if you are extremely well prepared, the other side usually loses and often folds.