GW...George Washington... wasn’t crazy when he warned about “entangling alliances.” They led to WW I.
Lets back down there like in Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Syria, Turkey.... totally give up to get along. Give the southwest back to Mexico. Give the Louisiana purchase back to France. Give Alaska back to Russia. Lets shut down all our energy operations to give up to Saudi Arabia/OPEC. This would give the liberals their UTOPIA in the cold and dark.
Is the Sudentanland worth a war?
Why die for Danzig?
Its time to stop pretending that China is doing anything other than attempting to take over half the world by any means at their disposal
Really? And who do you think won that war?
Not a bit of our business.
China IS going to regain status as a major economic and military power in the world. I don’t blame them for seeing it as their right to be a superpower.
We got into a world of hurt before getting involved in struggles between Japan and China.
The entirety of southeast Asia is not worth he blood of one American seaman.
I agree.
War comes from weakness, not strength.
Let’s keep showing strength.
Then, war will not come.
Pat may be old, but he’s as sharp as a tack, especially where foreign policy is concerned. The perfect antidote to the Krauthammers and Podhoretzes of the world.
The answer is to cancel all such security pact trip wires that mean war.
BTW Is the Tea party in favor of growing government and spending for war or are they just for whacking Americans?
Just turn around the Walmart Navy.
Go long Mexico, it will become the new China.
What about all those US government securities in Beijing’s basement?
What if they fire across a bow? Or we do?
Where does this go?
So now Pat is shilling for the Chinese Communsts.
How low can he go?
The Senkakus are NOT independently the issue, and Mr Buchanan is not ignorant of that fact.
The Senkakus are but one of many such long territorial disagreements (in the oceans) between China and other Asian nations, as well as between two or more of those other Asian nations.
The difference is that most of those disagreements have not until recently generated much in the way of military confrontations involving the navies of Asia.
China has changed that.
It is attempting to bully those with whom it has such disagreements, even when its claims are much less feasible that could conceivably be the case with the respect to the Senkakus. Earlier this year it sailed a group of military vessels into the waters off the shore of an atoll that is just 90 miles from Malaysia and more than 1,000 miles from any piece of Chinese territory, just to announce to Malaysia that, if it wanted to, it would defend it’s (China’s) claim on the area.
It has taken similar moves with respect to the Philippines and Vietnam.
Then, as though to insure unhindered prospects for this bullying it has declared a swath of international waters as a security zone it will demand other nations give it, China, deference to in their transit through it.
The issue is not, independently, the Sekakus, or any other group of islands claimed by anyone.
The issue is whether China will be allowed to bully everyone into agreements on these issues to its satisfaction or will it be forced to make comprehensive and peaceful multi-national agreements with the rest of Asia.
China wants to bully nations into one-on-one agreements, offering both carrots and sticks in some cases, and even when such an agreement results in the same claims by other parties left out, and in effect dividing Asian nations outside of China from each other and from a common cause of obtaining settlements agreed to by all.
Chinese nationalism wants to pretend, to the Chinese populace, that its bullying is necessary for the expanding Chinese economy and its need for raw materials. This is imperialist mercantilist nationalism no different than Japan’s in the first forty decades of the last century. After WWII Japan learned that through peaceful and cooperative trade it could obtain the outside resources its economy needed, that demanding them by force was unnecessary.
The issue is not the Sekakus. Buchanan is an idiot.
If China is not careful she could become this century’s version of last century’s Japan, with the attendent backlash in Asia and the world that goes with it.
Why in the WORLD do we care about these God-forsaken islands?