New York Times: A U.S. Admiral’s Bluntness Rattles China, and Washington
HONOLULU — He has called China “provocative and expansionist,” accusing it of “creating a Great Wall of sand” and “clearly militarizing” the disputed waters of the Western Pacific. “You’d have to believe in a flat earth to think otherwise,” he said in one appearance before Congress.
These are the words of the American commander in charge of military operations in the Asia-Pacific region, Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., who has turned heads — and caused headaches — in Beijing as well as in Washington with language starker than any coming from his commander in chief, President Obama.
Admiral Harris makes no apologies for his candor, which has unsettled a more cautious White House. As China builds militarily fortified islands in the South China Sea, a strategic waterway long dominated by the United States, it is his job, he says, to talk to Congress, the American public and allies abroad about the threat.
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WNU Editor: He was Hillary Clinton's military adviser when she was Secretary of State. You have to wonder if he is positioning himself to be in a Clinton administration in the event that she wins the Presidential election. This is also probably the reason (and I am speculating now) on why the Pentagon does not want to reign him in when anyone else would be.
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