Freeman and Hainan Accident II

It's surprising and not that surprising that Ambassador Freeman was finally withdrawing from his candidacy to the Chair of National Intelligence Council. In a political environment like this, no real impartial person could be put into the right place. The Israeli lobbying group was proved invincible again and the Anti-China choir played a minor role in this as well. Just like what's happening in recent history, here nobody cares what you are capable of, only whether you are politically correct. Speaking of ideology and propaganda, what an irony! Robert Pape the other day wrote on the Chicago tribune and talked about the decline of American economic power which led to the inescapable decline of American global hegemony, but for me, the real decline is not in economics, it's the lost of consensus! What and where is American national interest? How to achieve it? Maybe a democracy is needed to get the best idea out of a debate, but what if the debate is unending and confusing the right direction of the country?
I guess in order to prove that the $600B is really what the military needs, American navy is taking a dangerous course of getting close to China again. What a coincidence! Remember the last Hainan Accident in the first Bush year? To justify the necessity of keeping the Chinese in check, you'd have to give evidence of a wild, unlawful and reckless existence. Here it is, as if the trouble in Iraq and Afghanistan wasn't enough, U.S. navy ship has to come close to 75miles south of Hainan and still claim that China is the one who violated international laws! Is there a logic behind this? Maybe there is, that is giving more money to the military will never be wrong, cause the enemy is always out there when you sting it.
So who's gonna control U.S.-China relations? Hope building a mutual benefit base of energy and climate change isn't wishful thinking. Apparently, Secretary Clinton isn't ready for anything yet and forget about Geithner who's lost in the financial jungle, Freeman is gone, so Bates is gonna take over? What a mess.
Right now, the Congress is the most active actor on the scene. And nobody in that body thinks good about China. Particularly that ambitious Pelosi who's acting like the crazy actor Gere. But if the world were to recover from the "fall off the cliff", China and the U.S. had to work together.
That's why I am worried.