Every so often we are clearly reminded why the foreign policy of President Jimmy Carter's administration was an absolute disaster (and an existential threat to the United States), necessitating Reagan's housecleaning and realignment. Writing over at The Diplomat, Amitai Etzioni from George Washington University -- and a former Senior Adviser in Carter's administration -- attempts to make the case that the Pentagon's Air-Sea Battle (ASB) concept "makes war with China more likely." Etzioni's absurd arguments culminate in the following statement: "The main flaw Air-Sea Battle it is [sic] not merely that it is a particularly aggressive military response to the anti-access/area-denial challenge. The problem is that ASB is developing in a foreign policy vacuum. If the U.S. were to conduct a thorough review of China's military capabilities and its regional and global ambitions -- and found that the Chinese were planning to forcefully expand their territory or unseat the U.S. as...(Read Full Post)