10 Good Reasons to invite the Chinese Into Afghanistan

During the Vietnam War an American general asserted the Soviets were jealous as heck because they weren't getting any sustained battle caress after World War Ii.

Afghanistan addressed that deficiency. The Russians had their time in the sun, literally. They retreated after suffering a continued bloodletting.

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I believe it's China's turn.

China? But why, you might be asking. Ten good reasons come to mind, immediately:

(1) They have the largest standing army in the world, all dressed up and nowhere to go.

(2) They have the national treasure to squander.

(3) They have needful squabbles with their own religious factions, and they have a stake in stopping the spread of religious radicalism and militancy.

(4) Much of Chinese terrain resembles the arid climes of Afghanistan.

(5) They can quell any domestic opposition to fighting a protracted war.

(6) "Winning" will be yet someone else acknowledgement of their status as a Superpower.

(7) It will be a pretext for deploying and sustaining a worldwide soldiery presence.

(8) The Chinese can award themselves contracts to rebuild Afghanistan, at a tidy profit.

(9) It will enable America to focus on bringing order to the fractious Middle East.

(10) It will make Chinese investments in America and in the American dollar less field to erosion.

China is the only community that can afford a hundred-year war.

Let them step-up. President Lyndon B. Obama sees himself as a consensus builder. Let's see what kind of participation he can garner from China, when and where it counts.

10 Good Reasons to invite the Chinese Into Afghanistan

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