Guns or Butter

Just wondering; with Washington DC swamped with Iraq, and the twin storms of Katrina and Rita smashing the Gulf coast, with oil refineries off-line and record deficits projected, with rampant poverty, homelessness, and growing animosity towards the war effort, with gas prices gouging every area of family spending and adding cost to most consumer products, with the stock market flat-lining and reports of a housing bubble burst, with mid-term elections just 13 months away...

Wondering, what is keeping India from invading Pakistan, China taking Taiwan, North Korea moving into South Korea?

Something must be happening in the world that is going unreported right now.

At the end of WWII, when the Allied Powers were dividing Europe, Ho Chi Minh pleaded with Western leaders for aid to Vietnam. With the Marshall Plan on the table, the last place in the world that anyone wanted to look to invest was Southeast Asia.

Ho was ignored and look what that brought to both the French and the U.S.

History has a way of repeating itself. The U.S. appears to be vulerable on the international scene right now. After all, our plate is full at home.