[lit-ideas] Re: The Grand Strategy of Containing China
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:30:21 EDT
Apparently North Korea disappeared over the last couple days while I wasn't
looking....
Julie Krueger
confused by yesterday's e-mails
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] The Grand Strategy of
Containing China Date: 4/20/06 12:54:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time From:
_omarkusto@xxxxxxxxxx (mailto:omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx) To:
_lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on:
Slowly but surely, the grand strategy of the Bush
administration is being revealed. It is not aimed
primarily at the defeat of global terrorism, the
incapacitation of rogue states, or the spread of
democracy in the Middle East. These may dominate the
rhetorical arena and be the focus of immediate
concern, but they do not govern key decisions
regarding the allocation of long-term military
resources. The truly commanding objective -- the
underlying basis for budgets and troop deployments --
is the containment of China. This objective governed
White House planning during the administration's first
seven months in office, only to be set aside by the
perceived obligation to highlight anti-terrorism after
9/11; but now, despite Bush's preoccupation with Iraq
and Iran, the White House is also reemphasizing its
paramount focus on China, risking a new Asian arms
race with potentially catastrophic consequences.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=78021
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