Ramping Up the ‘China Threat’
There is much to love among Rummy-lovers and much to hate from the Rummy-haters, but you gotta admit the man is never dull to cover. Under the leadership of the first Defense Secretary to admit that “stuff happens,” the Pentagon has just released its Quadrennial Defense Review( QDR).
According to the Washington Post article by Ann Tyson, China is singled out in the QDR as having "the greatest potential to compete militarily with the United States."
Damn! Just as Wal-Mart was getting ready for the latest mark-down on flat-screen TV monitors from the Asian Tiger.
Rummy’s Pentagon has a strategy, though. It calls for accelerating the fielding of a new Air Force long-range strike force, as well as for building undersea warfare capabilities. How mid-fifties is that? Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson in Strategic Air Command all over again—the rerun possibilities are enormous---wonder who’ll star in the Peter Sellers role when they re-make Dr. Strangelove? Rumsfeld is known to love those old movi…