Year of the Rat : How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash (Follow this link to Amazon)

Year of the Rat : How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash (Follow this link to Barnes and Noble)

Edward Timperlake, William C. Triplett

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In the 21^st Century, China is the one to watch. Whether as a culture, as a regional hegemony, or as a national entity China is the next threat to the survival of freedom and the ideals the Western world has come to cherish. The world and the West are making a terrible mistake if they view China through the lens of Communism. That political philosophy has been thoroughly discredited and no longer poses the charismatic appeal that made it the scourge of the 20^th century.

The eastern variant of communism practiced by China is now made culturally foreign to any in the West. Given that cultural variant, it is no longer a philosophic threat, i.e. a battle in the arena of ideas. However that is replaced by a far more dangerous cultural clash. Where the survival of one culture is seen to be in direct conflict with the survival of the other.

Into this danger zone, the West finds itself led by the least capable leader of the century. Without a question this book documents the most tragic and self-serving sell out of national interest that can be recalled in modern times. The Clinton-Gore administration and the Democratic National Committee put the self-serving interest of gaining and retaining control of the White House, and their own personal power, above the good of the nation and ultimately of the Western world. The fact-findings of this book can not be argued. The only argument possible is the one over how bad the damage really will be. This, tragically, will not be a verifiable argument for many years yet.

Yet as devastating and tragic as the sell out of the Clinton-Gore administration is, it is exacerbated by the U.S. China lobby. This is a group led by such statesmen as Henry Kissinger and James Baker, and by some of the top corporate heads in the nation. This is reminiscent of the last time this country’s business interests were put ahead of the national interest in that region of the world. Then we were lucky to triumph over a regional island nation. This time we will be facing nearly a third of the world’s population. The decisions of the next few years will be felt by the inhabitants of the next one hundred.