TO BE HONEST, THIS IS A CHARITABLE ASSESSMENT OF OUR RULING CLASS AND CHINA:

If you don’t wake up every morning cursing those responsible for defense and China policy in the 1990s … the gobsmackingly short sighted arrogance of it all – then what use are you, actually?

With a few exceptions, from partially completed CV rusting in Ukraine, to teaching the Communist Chinese how to MIRV ICBM warheads, to opening up our best research institutions to spies and assets, the USA was beset internally by unserious people with the attention span of a hamster and the historical perspective of a newborn in serious jobs requiring long-term thinking and decision making.

The harvest of this decade of frivolity continue to ripen, and via Jeremy Bogaisky, at Forbes – get ready to rage – we have just one more example; one that if we actually come to blows with the People’s Republic of China or those who buy their weapons – will result in more dead American men and women – more mutilated wounded.

People and perspective matter. It appears the PRC has known this for decades.

Read the whole thing.

Plus: “Where was the CIA, the FBI? Oh, that’s right – playing around in domestic politics.” Some things don’t change.