America's Fiscal Crisis Will Sink The Pentagon's Pacific Str

Pacific Strategy Is Sunk If We Can't Solve Fiscal Crisis: State Dept Official -- Otto Kreisher, Aol Defense

WASHINGTON: There's an increasing consensus in Washington that America's future lies in the Pacific. It's one of the few things both parties can agree on. Unfortunately, if we can't reach an agreement to get our fiscal house in order, the governments in the Asia-Pacific region will have every reason not to take our strategy seriously.

Republicans and Democrats agree that "the future, and the history, of the 21st century will be written in the Asia-Pacific region," declared the State Department's top official for the region, Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell. While the US is not abandoning the Middle East, Europe, or the rest of the world, he said, "the wheel has been turned and that we are now proceeding in what is our national destiny - as an Asia-Pacific strong partner."

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My Comment: I expect Washington to just "kick the can down the road" for another Congress and administration to deal with. Unfortunately .... that "can" is getting bigger, an kicking it down seems more and more unlikely. Something will break .... and I expect that it will be the Pacific strategy that will be revised.