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November 01, 2005
The War that Doesn’t Have to Be
As I've written of before, the current US policy of being a "world policeman" is slowly but surely causing America to paint itself into a corner with the People's Republic of China. And so two world superpowers, which need each other to survive, are steadily moving toward military conflict.
China acts as the workshop for American companies and buys the US government's debt which allows it to fund all the programs, wars, and other boondoggles it involves us in.
China in turn is peeved that the US involves itself in arming and defending Taiwan, which they see as a renegade province. North Korea is a thorn in China's side as well as America's and is very adept at playing the two super-states off against each other.
Following a less interventionist foreign policy and getting the federal budget back in balance would do more to reduce the hostile drift toward eventual military conflict than any other course of action. Neutralism in Asia (and the rest of the world as well) would seriously reduce this risk. James Pinkerton, writing in the paleo-conservative (i.e. non-interventionist) American Conservative, agrees.
Posted by Ali Massoud at November 1, 2005 03:49 PM
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