Craptcha: We’ve got China and Russia now. Plus, Obama has been beating the war with Iran drum for quite some time now, along with waging a quiet war (think Stuxnet and assassination of Iranian physicists) there.
Oh, and don’t forget North Korea. While Kim Jong-Dumpling has been off banging his new bride, I’m sure he’ll lose interest shortly and come back to rattling his saber at the US and Japan.[/quote]
China and Russia where US companies buy influence and make more money than domestically. It’s kind of hard to see China as mobilizing threat while complaining about Chinese plastic being delayed at LA port.
North Korea is relatively small and poor country perceived as annoyance at best. Vietnam caliber of enemy, at best. Not really a mobilizing force.
Iran could be good. I don’t think an average person here understands that Iran is not Afghanistan (i.e. sparsely populated country of 17 century peasants armed with 20 century weaponry), so there is potential to develop that threat. 75MM people, fairly advanced technology, globally influential… it’s not really clear why they hate us, but ‘because they are jealous’ worked before.
