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War with China - a ramble

There’s a headline on the CNN website about cyber warfare with China and how China has expressed to the US that they’re developing viruses and offenses against the United States online. Increasingly, CNN is doing a good job of reporting America’s problem of China more and more. Basically, what it boils down to is China is not our friend. There is also a news story on Digg at the same time that China declared developing increased offenses against the United States for shaking hands with a Taiwanese official and that they will not spare the US if they invade Taiwan, which I think is one of the first near-future priorities of the Chinese military. It’s scary to think about a war with China, in that it’s very likely it would be a lose-lose situation for America and nothing good could be gained from it. The US is at the top of the world and China wants there instead, and so China has everything to gain and we to lose. I’m also afraid that most Americans wouldn’t take a war with China seriously. After being disillusioned with the reasons we went to war with Iraq, I feel the majority of the people of the United States are very anti-war right now and that is a bad thing against a Chinese army of one billion plus soldiers, we need all the men we can get. If a war with China does occur, which unfortunately probably will in the coming decade or so, there’s going to be a draft. I don’t have a problem with that because I know fighting an army the size of China the United States would need to implement a draft or else we’d be grossly outnumbered, despite already being so.A big problem is the current anti-war state America is currently in what with after the Iraq war. The last thing Americans are thinking of is continuing the war in Iraq let alone getting involved in another war with another country. Not only that but especially after the Iraq war joining the army has been made by the American people as a last resort for people who can’t afford college or are not smart enough for college or doing anything else. While for now this is probably true, this fact will be a big deterrent for men volunteering to join the army to fight China, and so the draft must be implemented.

If we were to go to war with China, I wouldn’t even want to fight. Who would? All I’m thinking about now is getting a nice high paying job, buying a house, starting a family and living the American dream. Who in school right now would want to give up that dream to risk their lives fighting? Close to null. Although I wouldn’t want to go to war especially be forced to go (that’s probably the only way I would go anyways), I can understand why we would need the draft against China, because it would be the only way to make Americans like me fight for my country.

Unfortunately, despite anything, if there is internal struggle within America in regard to the size of protesting in this Iraq and Vietnam war America will surely fail a war with China.