[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

I did a search and did not see this posted.

Kissinger is right on the ball to say that we should not lose sight of the real challenges that await us in the future.

The terrorist threat is minimal in comparison to the confrontatioin we will inevitably have with China, if we are not careful about the nature of its changing relationship with the world. To me Kissinger seems worried and rightfully so.

I see the potential conflict, however, not over Taiwan, but rather natural resources.

1.3 billion Chinese cannot live like Americans currently do, but they will want to as long as we do.

[kipita]

"One cannot evaluate and judge the decisions of yesterday based of the criteria of today", Kissinger is an American patriot.

[maro]

There's nothing wrong with the Chinese desire for economic progress. As other people join the world economy, we get richer in the long run, not poorer. What's worrisome is the Chinese desire to be a regional hegemon, to have comparable military power as the United States. We must do all we can to prevent this. In other words, we have nothing to fear from a PRC that is a big version of Taiwan. We have much to fear from a PRC that is a big version of pre-WWII Japan.

[shield]

NWO....excuse me...

[FairOpinion]

Thanks for posting this.

An excellent analysis by Kissinger. Long, but definitely worth reading.

It also addresses what a disaster a Kerry policy of bilateral talks with N. Korea would have been.

Another major point that should receive more attention is:

"The nations bordering the North Atlantic need to ask themselves the fundamental question that has always underpinned the alliance - that is, what will the allies do for the relationship beyond the international consensus reflected at the United Nations?

Much of European debate today implies that the answer is "very little." To subject common military action to prior approval of the Security Council is incompatible with the very concept of alliance, which implies a special set of obligations. It spells the ultimate disintegration of a world order with the Atlantic partnership as its centerpiece.

The Atlantic relationship, to be meaningful, needs to have a special character. The United States and Europe should be prepared to do things for each other in the sphere beyond the immediate dictates of national interest and without insisting on universal consensus."

[rwfromkansas]

I am reading his "Diplomacy" tome for International Relations class. Man this guy is smart...

[Max Combined]

"1.3 billion Chinese cannot live like Americans currently do, but they will want to as long as we do."

They will want to live as we do now, irrespective of whether we do or do not.

The first thing they teach you in Economics 101 is that we have unlimited wants and limited resources.

[JasonC]

There isn't going to be any commitment of all sides to healing. The left is against US power in the world, and is against the realities of power, and against exercising them responsibly. They want to live in a fantasyland where it is enough to talk things through and take a five minute time out, where evil does not exist, only tempers, where the rest of the world does not want us to lose power and influence, only to listen to them before acting rashly. They cannot be trusted with power and are not going to change their minds on these things. We simply have to govern without their support, in full knowledge that occasionally their delusions will disrupt the exercise of responsible power on our part. We have to make progress while we are in power, and return to it whenever they get spanked for denying reality.

[B4Ranch]

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