FORTUNE COOKIE SAY, "AMERICA BAD!!"

Back in September, I highlighted a column by a crazed liberal by the name of James Carroll. It was one of the most deranged columns I had ever read and worthy of some derision. Well, I found another column by Mr. Whacko in today's Boston Globe and although it is not nearly as deranged (ah, the joys of modern psychiatric medicines), it was still pretty loopy. Because of that, in the flavor of his first sentence, I can say, "This may not be the dumbest column James Carroll has written"

He spends the whole column fawning over China's desire to hamstring the United States Strategic Defense Initiative. He says such damning things as:

"For decades, "deterrence" and "balance" were the main notes of Pentagon planning, but now "prevention" and "dominance" define the US posture. Such assertions can be made in Washington with only good intentions, but they fall on foreign ears as expressions of aggression."

Jeepers, what are we thinking? "Prevention"? Wouldn't want to be the strongest when it comes to defense now, would we? We get this, too:

"In the words of John Steinbruner and Jeffrey Lewis, writing in Daedalus, 'The Chinese were particularly alarmed by a 1998 long-range planning document released by the then United States Space Command. That document outlined a concept called global engagement -- a combination of global surveillance, missile defense, and space-based strike capabilities that would enable the United States to undertake effective preemption anywhere in the world and would deny similar capability to any other country.'"

"Undertake effective preemption anywhere in the world"? Oh, the horror!!!!

Carroll feels bad for the Chinese because:

"China has constructed a minimal deterrent force with a few dozen nuclear-armed ICBMs, but US "global engagement" based on a missile defense, will quickly undercut the deterrence value of such a force. The Chinese nuclear arsenal will have to be hugely expanded."

Might SDI also undercut the STRIKE capabilities, too? Maybe that's what has China so concerned, huh? Or, maybe by limiting our anti-missile and anti-satellite initiatives, it will allow China to charge right ahead and develop there own even in defiance of their own treaty, as documented very well by the Heritage Foundation here.

James Carroll is one of those America-hating liberals who either cannot see the damage to this country in the ideas they espouse or they can see it and espouse with full intention. I don't know what category Psycho fits into, but I tend to believe he falls into the latter category.