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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: China as Number One? Don’t Bet Your Bottom Dollar
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By: Tom Engelhardt
http://www.alternet.org/world/150869/china_as_number_one_don%E2%80%99t_bet_your_bottom_dollar_
Tired of Afghanistan and all those messy, oil-ish wars in the Greater Middle East that just don’t seem to pan out?...
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By: Tom Engelhardt
http://www.alternet.org/world/150869/china_as_number_one_don%E2%80%99t_bet_your_bottom_dollar_
Tired of Afghanistan and all those messy, oil-ish wars in the Greater Middle East that just don’t seem to pan out? Count on one thing: part of the U.S. military feels just the way you do, especially a largely sidelined Navy — and that’s undoubtedly one of the reasons why, a few months back, the specter of China as this country’s future enemy once again reared its ugly head.
Back before 9/11, China was, of course, the favored future uber-enemy of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and all those neocons who signed onto the Project for the New American Century and later staffed George W. Bush’s administration. After all, if you wanted to build a military beyond compare to enforce a long-term Pax Americana on the planet, you needed a nightmare enemy large enough to justify all the advanced weapons systems in which you planned to invest.
As late as June 2005, neocon
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