'We must stop China' - and feed the pigs

And you thought that those new US nuclear-powered submarines and long-range bombers financed within the US's proposed 2007 military budget of $439 billion were to take out Osama?

asiatimes: Containing China: The US's real objective
By Michael T Klare

Slowly but surely, the grand strategy of the Bush administration is being revealed. It is not aimed primarily at the defeat of global terrorism, the incapacitation of rogue states, or the spread of democracy in the Middle East. These may dominate the rhetorical arena and be the focus of immediate concern, but they do not govern key decisions regarding the allocation of long-term military resources. The truly commanding objective - the underlying basis for budgets and troop deployments - is the containment of China.

Northrop Grumman ['Grummy'] General Dynamics ['The General'] BAE ['B'] Boeing ['Bo'] Lockheed Martin ['Marty'] Raytheon ['Raymond'] and friends
- "a damn fine meal"

...Preparing for war with China, in other words, is to be the future cash cow for the giant US weapons-making corporations in the military-industrial complex. It will, for instance, be the primary justification for the acquisition of costly new weapons systems such as the F-22A Raptor fighter, the multi-service Joint Strike Fighter, the DDX destroyer, the Virginia-class nuclear attack submarine, and a new intercontinental penetrating bomber - weapons that would just have utility in an all-out encounter with another great-power adversary of a sort that only China might someday become Read more

*sorry pigs