The same was said about the USSR. ----- Original Message ----- From: To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 4/20/2006 1:08:39 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Worst Case Scenarios In a message dated 4/19/2006 11:40:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time, john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx writes: The scenarios he describes in which the Chinese and a middle-sized country in the Middle East use asymmetric warfare techniques to decimate attacking U.S. forces may sound a bit much like Tom Clancy. Hi, No, no. Not Tom Clancy. Like Dan Brown, he just puts pieces together... You are really thinking of... The Book of Revelations...in which end-time theology talks about a nation that many have speculated as being China... Best, Marlena in Missouri Of the Believer and Non-Believer Theory of the Month Club