Panetta "Skippy", in Beijing
Panetta seeks deeper military ties with China
Larry Downing/AP - U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, left, walks with Chinese Defense Minister Liang Guanglie during a ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing, China, on Tuesday.
Panetta told his counterpart, Defense Minister Liang Guanglie, that the U.S. strategy of rebalancing its forces in Asia is not targeted at China and is not in conflict with closer ties between the world’s two biggest economies. He invited China to send a ship to the 2014 Rimpac exercise, a multinational naval drill in the Pacific Ocean.
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America is a very sad nation that has become the biggest terrorists of the world...over 500,000 killed and maimed since 9/11 and FOR WHAT? Wasting $1.5+ TRILLION in FY 2009 alone on defense, 146 security forces, 16 intel agencies/depts. and 700+ foreign military bases….. approx. TWO TIMES all rest of world military spending….stop the war mongering and military madness and reduce all the above in half or more!
It's time to completely change foreign policy and stop demonizing nations for their traditions, mores and type of government and accept that they have their own belief system, much as the great majority of nations in the world do.
A good example, our second largest trading partner and largest foreign holder of American debt (outside of the fed buying our own debt- like eating your own children) is China and yet we consistently demonize them and send troops to Asia to begin another stupid war front. America is the biggest terrorists in the world. The war mongering, duplicity and stupidity of our leaders knows no bounds.
America a nation going downhill fast- imperialism, debt, constant stealing from WE THE PEOPLE, declining morals, lack of ethics and unparallel’d greed, reminiscent of ancient Rome.