Three New Things To Worry About

Number 3 on today's list:

The Chinese. They just showed the world how a billion communists can put on a really good Olympics, while effectively squelching all dissent at home. Memories of their event will make the one four years from now in London look amateurish. (Remember when the Olympics were for amateurs, by the way?) If you don't think the Chinese will be the number-one nation in the world in a few years, you're kidding yourself. Or you live in India.

Number 2: Buried in today's news briefs: Iran launched its first satellite. Let that settle in for a minute: A country that is only a couple of clicks to the right of nutzo North Korea on the fanatic scale now can de-orbit a nuke (that we know they will have any day now) anywhere they want.

Number 1: Stalinist Russia is alive and well and in the hands of Putin and his lackeys. It only took them about 15 years to crawl back from total collapse, and this time they have the advantage of the West needing their oil and natural gas. Putin can put the squeeze on Western Europe any time he wants, and I'm guaranteed he will. I hope our boys ion the Army haven't forgotten how to fight a land battle that doesn't involve dodging random terrorists with home-made bombs, but will involve thousands of Russian tanks. And did you note that when they left Georgia, they took all the American technology we'd given the Georgians with them? Expect to see a Russian version of the Hummer in a few months...