China

My hope is that we have some REALLY sharp people working on this issue. What do I mean? China is plowing more and more money into it's "defence" budget. They have an army that could walk into any country it wanted. They have nukes. They are becoming an economic powerhouse that will blow away OPEC in it's ability to influence the world's economy. Getting the picture? My point is this, they have a very different culture and value system than we do. Trying to apply ours to theirs is not a smart move. Look what it has done for us in the middle east. When I was in the military the big threat was the Soviet Union. We should have been looking at China. Maybe I'm just a canary in a coal mine, but a large amount of our manufacturing and production capability is, even now, sitting over in China.

Let's just keep our eyes open, ok?