Re: [TSCM-L] {4697} Eyeballing The Great Eastern Wind

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From: John Young <j..._at_pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] {4695} Eyeballing The Great Eastern Wind
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Whether China's economic power will lead to a takeover of
the world's policeman's role held by the US is intriguing. That
would follow the model of European powers giving up the dominant
role to US and USSR due to an economic decline brought on
in part by profligate military spending at the sacrifice of economic
prudence.

The US could well be spent into diminished military power by overspending
on military power if the nation sacrifices its economic stability for the
sake of hidebound national security.

Political leaders appear to be frightened of not spending enough on
military protection, and the need for greater military protection is
ratcheted up with every scare story about the increasing power
of other nations who are not considered to be allies.

The US outspent the USSR to cripple that nation's economcy,
and if China follows that model it will have learned a useful lesson
so long as it does not succumb to the belief that military power
trumps all others.

To be sure, the US may have intended to outspend China on military
power to drive that nation into bankruptcy. If so, that policy seems
to have boomeranged.

No other nation wastes as much money on the military as the US,
under the shallow rationale that the defense industry props up
the economy. Not much comfort in that short-sightedness right
now.

Recall that Britain could not afford its worldwide navy, so the ships
were docked to rot. Imagine our subs, bombers, carriers, and big
ticket hardware could not be afforded, with the military reduced
to handle brush fires with means and methods being applied
in Afpak.

Defense contractors are scrambling to keep the national threats
alive with intense lobbying for threat manufacturing by the
spy agencies, the Congress and Administration are in lock
step with this as recent legislation and budget allocations have
demonstrated.

The China threat is a piece of this strategy, along with Iran
and the old standby usual suspect, Russia. Europe would
love to see the US hoist on its own petard.
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