Those cyber threat articles only serve to foster suspicion and distrust of China, thus slowly building a grounds for attacking China in some form or fashion.  Although not publicly, I would definatly call China an enemy.  China, Iran and Russia are allying with the democratic revolutionaries of South America, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, etc...  Russia in particle has a hugely popular anti-US media campaign, RT News.  This media campaign, unlike the US's, has the advantage of gaining support by telling the truth.  While US/western interests may counter those of China, Russia, and others, fighting those (the US's) interests will lead to a more sustainable, peaceful world if successful.

 

I personally prefer Russia's method of "truth-warfare" as opposed to our trillion dollar war-machine.

This is a real war.  I agree with most of what you've said, but not this.  We are at a point where admitting to another war would be devastating to our political system.  People are still dangerous to their governments.  The afpak and iraq wars are just subsets of a bigger broader war.  Some other subsets are called conflicts, some are officially denied according to the war powers act and some are supposedly humanitarian..yea right, but this can all be viewed as one, bigger war.

 

Also, given to current state of affairs we're in, I tend to side with Bush when he said that "the best way to revitalize an economy is through war".  I completely disagree, but at the same time I don't think we are trying to prevent war.

Its almost sounds as if you are afraid of Chinese way of life more than China itself. 

 

And isn't any sentance beginning with the words "According to the president" bound to contain an untruth or mistruth or anything along those lines?  If we took the president at his word we wouldn't be questioning the 9/11 report, we would think the patriot act violates our rights as citizens, we would be even more scared of "terror", and chances are we wouldn't even remember that only a few months ago he announced to the entire nation his withdrawal from Afghanistan.  And heck..if we took the presidents words as truth then Saddam=Osama.  No the president's word means nothing.  This is one massive war, like it or not.  War in the far east, war in the middle east, war in latin america, one big war to rule them all.

Its almost sounds as if you are afraid of Chinese way of life more than China itself. 

 

And isn't any sentance beginning with the words "According to the president" bound to contain an untruth or mistruth or anything along those lines?  If we took the president at his word we wouldn't be questioning the 9/11 report, we would think the patriot act violates our rights as citizens, we would be even more scared of "terror", and chances are we wouldn't even remember that only a few months ago he announced to the entire nation his withdrawal from Afghanistan.  And heck..if we took the presidents words as truth then Saddam=Osama.  No the president's word means nothing.  This is one massive war, like it or not.  War in the far east, war in the middle east, war in latin america, one big war to rule them all.