Reply #12: So, the Bush Doctrine killed the Monroe Doctrine

[Kolesar]

It certainly seems that the American warring apparatus is at the limits of what it can perform simultaneously.

My observation is that China is becoming the economic power that South America responds to because China has started buying the raw materials they need from there.

China is smart in that they sell product to America and use us as a cash cow, but they do buy from other countries because they are using their purchases as political leverage. China bought silence of countries that would otherwise have been critics of their nasty human rights abuses.