Here are my main concerns with italic suggests on how to deal with them:

1) The Chinese. Right now, the entire east coast of China is living at western standards (about 150 Million people). That part of China has caught us economically. The country as a whole is growing at around 9% per year, we grow at 3% per year (average). China's GNP is $6.5 Trillion, we're at $11 Trillion (both numbers from the CIA website and World Almanac). If you do the math, the Chinese economy will surpass us in 2012. If you continue the math, they will double our size in about 2020. At that point, and considering that they have 350 million men of fighting age, they will be able to dictate terms to us (and outspend us military, if they so choose), rather than the other way around. What's being done? Not much. Do people seem to care? No. Why not? Because it's never happened before - therefore it will not happen in the future. That tends to be the thinking of the anointed. Here are some of my suggestions as to how to deal with them - they're worth what you paid for them.

a) Accept Reality!! Many people, even on this website, have a prejudicial attitude towards China - they simply believe that China is inferior, and thus we have nothing to worry about. It is the same attitude that we had towards the Nazis and Japanese prior to World War 2, and the results of that policy are well documented. While it may be true that China will someday implode, do we want to base our surival on that hope? We certainly didn't take that approach during the Cold War.

b) Keep our Nukes!! It will take China a long time to match our capability. They don't need to be armed and ready to fire, but they do need to be at least readily retrievable. President Bush, to his credit, has been doing that. He's moved most of our nukes out of service but kept them intact and easy to re-activate. A Democrat on the other hand would take any available excuse to permanently destroy our weapons (since they consider OUR weapons to be the biggest obstacle to peace in the world).

c) Identify the threat and the capability. One of President Reagan's better moves during the Cold War was to commission an annual report on Soviet military capability. It was a full-color glossy report showing (to the extent of our capability) what they had. I bought one from the Government Printing Office in the early 80s, now, of course you just post it on the web.

d) Using the above report, determine what we need to stay ahead, and simply spend the necessary money. The Constitution requires it. What's left over can be spent on government goodies. The basic point being that government spending needs to be prioritized with Constitutionally required spending being top priority (Military, Government functions, courts, border control, etc.), and all other items being financed with whatever is left. Right now we have it exactly backwards - Social Security and other entitlements have priority over military spending - they don't even need to be authorized each year.

e) State flat-out that any politician or party that will not recognize this quickly emerging threat has no business in national politics. Obviously this means the Democrats as a whole, as well as some Republicans. National security should not be an issue traded off against school lunches or even Social Security. If this country loses a war, it's unlikely that the aggressors will really care that much about Prescription Drug benefits. Anyone putting the two side-by-side has no business in national politics. They can do a lot of things at the state and lower levels, but they certainly do not belong in the White House or Congress (but, unfortunately we will always be stuck with some of them).

f) The overall goal is to stay strong enough to be safe until China either collapses or becomes a friendly country. Right now they feel that they're entitled to their half of the planet and they are taking methodical steps to stake their claim. We will bump into them, maybe in the middle of the Pacific, and we need to make it clear to them that we will not be pushed around.



...on to Europe

The year was 1683. Isaac Newton was spending his time in England putting the finishing touches on a set of equations that would launch the Industrial Revolution. The colonies in the New World were getting firmly established. Galileo and his telescope were old hat, with the astronomer having died 41 years earlier. But over in Eastern Europe, things were ugly, and getting worse by the minute. The city was Vienna, Austria, and they under a vicious attack that was literally one day from wiping out Christian Europe. The Ottomans meant business, and by taking Vienna, the rest of Europe would be a cake-walk. The walls of the great city were under attack from newly invented gunpowder. The citizens had, at most, several days before they would be finished off.

But then, with parts of the walls already breached, came a gentleman by the name of Jan Sobieski, a Polish leader with 30,000 troops, and a cause. Mr. Sobieski decided that Europe was not yet ready to be Islamic, and he went on to totally decimate the 140,000 troops that the Ottoman leader, a Mr. Kara Mustapha Pasha had at his disposal. The Ottomans were through forever, and Europe would be free of the Muslim threat for the next 300 years.

And that brings us to today. Things are different, now. Europe is once again under attack by Muslims, but there are no guns (to speak of) being fired. No, this attack is much more insidious, and MUCH more threatening. It is a DEMOGRAPHIC ATTACK. The Muslims were invited in by the Europeans over the past 3 decades, for various reasons, and they have decided to not just stay, but to actively outpopulate the whites. Unfortunately, the whites are doing just about everything possible to help out. It is now rare to see any white families with more than one child - assuring a collapsing population. At the same time that the Muslims are launching a voracious, multi-front, demographic attack, the whites are committing demographic suicide.

So how will it end? There are several possible outcomes, and none of them are pretty. The whites could decide to yield, and allow the Muslims to take over. They would then be at their mercy. The whites could decide to clear out their countries of Muslims - but that would be very ugly. By my estimation, the whites have no more than about 10 years to make up their minds, and another 5 years or so to get to work (if they decide to fight). After that time, there will simply be too few fighting age whites - Europe will have plenty of old whites, but far too few able to fight.

And what if the European whites consider repopulating. Wish them luck - not only will they have an extreme shortage of fighting men, they will, of course, have an extreme shortage of women of childbearing age. In other words, their families will have to average something like 4 or 5 kids, unheard of today, and the mothers will have to start young.