While the NeoCons are foaming at the mouth, doing everything
that Israel wants, the real adversaries of the US are scooping
up its Empire.

Let Israel have its Pax Judica in the Levant, with the
Final Solution they want for the Arabs.

In the meantime, the US is sinking quickly into the quagmire
and is following the mistakes made by all previous arrogant
empires.

In the meantime, so-called "Millenial Christians" (anything but
Christians), are spreading hatred of anyone who disagrees with their
radical, miltiary agenda and woundering why they weren't Raptured


itwill@happen.com wrote:

China role in West worries Pentagon

By Rowan Scarborough
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. officials "need to be alert" to China's growing influence in
Latin America, especially the role its intelligence services are
playing, a senior Pentagon policy-maker told a House panel yesterday.

The testimony from Roger Pardo-Mauer, deputy assistant secretary
of defense for Western Hemisphere affairs, comes as China is
attempting to exercise more influence in the United States' back

yard.

Beijing has sought closer ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba, controls
shipping ports in Central America and may be gathering intelligence

in

the region as it has done in the United States for years, officials
have said.

China also is moving closer to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,

a

popularly elected leftist who regularly criticizes the United States
and has been seeking partners in an anti-U.S. coalition. China is
searching for more sources of energy as its economy expands to the
word's sixth largest and its appetite for oil grows. Venezuela is the
United States' No. 3 foreign supplier of crude.
"We need to be alert to rapidly advancing Chinese capabilities,
particularly in the fields of intelligence, communications and
cyber-warfare, and their possible application in the region," Mr.
Pardo-Mauer told the House International Relations subcommittee on

the

Western Hemisphere. "We would encourage other nations in the
hemisphere to take a close look at how such activities could possibly
be used against them or the United States."
China is bankrolling a military rearmament that includes more
nuclear weapons and a larger long-range navy. Intelligence officials
say it is all part of Beijing's plan to become a global military and
economic power.
Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican and subcommittee chairman,
said "weak legal systems, lax enforcement of labor standards and an
immature institutionalization of the respect for human rights are
fertile ground for Beijing's agenda and China is definitely

exploiting

this opening."
Latin America has reveled in two decades of transition from
dictatorships to democracies, but recent trends trouble the Bush
administration. Officials fear Mr. Chavez is poised to use the
military to solidify his power in Venezuela and to export revolution
to neighboring states. In Central America, the communist Sandinista
Party seems on the verge of retaking control of Nicaragua.
Mr. Pardo-Mauer said China does not seem interested in developing
a military presence in Latin America, although it is increasing
contacts. There is no evidence, he said, "that Chinese military
activities in the Western Hemisphere, including arms sales, pose a
direct conventional threat to the United States or its friends and
allies."
Testifying alongside Mr. Pardo-Mauer was Roger F. Noriega, the
assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs. Mr.
Noriega's statement referred to China's "increased presence" in the
hemisphere to find more raw materials, to "showcase its emergence as

a

major power" and to "pursue defense and intelligence opportunities."