Rumsfeld was in China.

He spoke to future leaders, saying they should be worried about how the world views them and world attitudes about China. What are we thinking? What are we doing?! We are playing the part of the baddest fuckers in the world able to tell other countries how to behave.

But are we? If you look at just a few facts it would seem so. The US spends huge amounts, hundreds of billions, on the military. We have close to 300 million people... yes 300 million!! We have 5.9 million square miles of land mass to work with. Are we not a force to reckon with?

Let's compare it to China. 1,300 million people, 9.6 million square miles of land.

1.3 BILLION!! That's a lot of people, and we really have no idea how these people think. Just imagine if they were all patriotic, a nationalistic fervor running through the entire population. They have the MOST people in the world. Hell, if it weren't for India, with a population of 1 billion, it would take eight countries along with the US to match that population. EIGHT COUNTRIES!!!!! Excluding India, they have a population that rivals the top nine countries in the world COMBINED! Imagine if it were Confucius and Buddhism telling people they were destined to rule the world instead of Muhammad.

How's your Chinese?