[gcruse]

And that the United States ought to develop
some sort of containment policy toward the Communists.

Been there, done that.  This isn't 1950.
The PRC isn't likely to use client states
to foment world revolution.  Please stop
planning to fight the last war.

The real danger with China is an attack
on Taiwan followed by destabilizing
Korea, the Phillipines, and Japan.
Japan needs to militarize, the Phillipines
need to ask the US back into the bases
they kicked us out of, and Korea needs
to dampen its (according to the Honolulu
Advertiser) growing anti-Americanism.

But most and soonest, Taiwan needs
to be allowed to acquire the means to
repel any PRC attack.  Bush is coming
around to that viewpoint none too soon.

[gcruse]

fyi

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I have to agree. But I wouldn't worry too much about the minority in Korea who'd like us out. They make news because they are so far out of the mainstream thinking in the area.

[Jeff Head]

I believe the PRC will not move on Taiwan until they are more prepared (economically and militarily) , and even more importantly, unitl we (the US) are engaged heavily elsewhere. (ie. the Mid East and/or Korea).

I do not think it beyond reason, when the time was right from their perspective, for the PRC to help forment such engagements to distract us and lay the ground work for their own ultimate move.

DRAGON"S FURY SERIES
A Series on the Coming World War

It is (among other things) a central premise of my fictional series.

FRegards.