But wait. Isn’t China our friend?
That's what Thomas PM Barnett kept braying insensately at the Navy brass from his Xlinton-appointed perch at the USN War College.
He claimed, and still claims in the "Pentagon's New Map." that they wouldn't risk losing their markets. LOL!
Barnet Only got fired after the election of '04 when he backed Kerry over Bush. Up until then he was W's and Rummy's best of Globalist trade chums by way of the number of high-ranking power-point blarney sessions he was allowed to perpetrated throughout the government, not just within defense.