“Let’s not kid ourselves,” says Charles Freeman, the former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and the man who served as Richard Nixon’s interpreter in the 1972 China opening. “The armed forces of the United States and China are now very far along in planning and practicing how to go to war with each other.” Freeman’s analysis of foreign policy issues is always keen and, in a world clearly headed to a nasty and probable nuclear conflagration, it should drown out the imbecility offered endlessly by know-nothing panelists on cable TV. Maybe the gods have changed their method in the media age … Continue reading America’s War Trajectory: Time to Get Serious