Neo-Cons Targeted US’s Chinese Policy
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Foreign Policy
If you didn’t think they were just plain dangerous before, this new information about the neo-cons death wish foreign policy shift against Big Red could be enough to swing your opinion.
The same top Bush administration neoconservatives who leap-frogged Washington’s foreign policy establishment to topple Saddam Hussein nearly pulled off a similar coup in U.S.-China relations�creating the potential of a nuclear war over Taiwan, a top aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell says.Lawrence B. Wilkerson, the U.S. Army colonel who was Powell’s chief of staff through two administrations, said in little-noted remarks early last month that “neocons� in the top rungs of the administration quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move toward a declaration of independence from mainland China � an act that the communist regime has repeatedly warned would provoke a military strike.
The top U.S. diplomat in Taiwan at the time, Douglas Paal, backs up Wilkerson’s account, which is being hotly disputed by key former defense officials.
Nice foreign policy, eh? Let’s go to war with EVERYBODY. Take a hard line, don’t back down and fight it out because might makes right.
I literally shudder every time I think that these guys were running our Defense Department.
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June 2nd, 2007 at 4:10 pm
If only they had thought that “might makes right.” Unfortunately, they seem to have thought more like “right makes might” — and therefore not troubled to put any effort into providing the military might that might have made their various bits of war-mongering even vaguely practical.
Oh well, I suppose we should be glad that they didn’t manage to start any more wars than they did. Or the military would be thoroughly broken long since.
June 4th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Justin, you obviously are quite unfamiliar with Taiwan-China issues. Well, at least you’re only familiar with the lightweight American cliff notes version of it.
The altitude of your foot is slowing increasing. Best stop here.