One other reason why some democrats are trying to work with India

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Iran is probably just a diversion to hide what Bush is preparing: a war (hopefully cold) with China.


http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20060113/china_and_india_change_the_game.php

And yet, dangers lurk. The administration has released slides from its forthcoming Quadrennial Defense Review that place an enormous priority on preparing to deter the rise of a future "near peer" superpower. In other words, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is salivating at the prospect of a rising China (and the massive weapons budgets such a foe would require). In fact, it's increasingly likely that Rumsfeld considered Iraq a distraction from his China build-up all along.

To rush into the breech claiming China and India are the new grand strategic threat is to play into Rumsfeld's hands. It would also hasten the economic disaster that lies just over the horizon . Rather, it is time for really big-picture thinking to figure out just how we can prevent the increasing competition over oil from turning into a strategic threat that destroys the American economy, in effect, doing to America what we did to the Soviets.

That will require a new grand strategy that bridges our economy and our foreign policy. Our last grand strategy did link economics and national security, a fact both Truman and Eisenhower acknowledged explicitly. It is time once again to define America's purpose. Done right, we'll drain the swamp of international terrorists at the same time.