BLANKLEY: Chinese dragon flexes economic muscles

Writen By Tony Blankley

Now is a particularly dangerous moment for American national security interests. It’s not just because threats are growing. It’s not just because the current administration is making a historic bungle from China to Iraq to Iran to Russia to Europe to Mexico to our historic allies in the Middle East - both Jewish and Muslim. All that would be bad enough.

But the greatest threat to our national security at the moment is the manifest indifference of the voting public to these foreign threats - and the silence on them from our alleged leaders. It’s understandable.

The devil has our economy by the throat, and Americans (when they think about politics) are focused on what Washington should do - or should stop doing - to defeat our domestic economic threat.

Obviously, the public is in no mood to go looking for foreign devils. Every 27-year-old junior Washington political operative knows this is a political season to advise candidates to talk about jobs , jobs, jobs. And they should.

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