Kill a chicken to scare the monkeys

“Some hawks take the aggressive rhetoric to an even higher level: .’“Since we have decided that the US is bluffing in the East China Sea, we should take this opportunity to respond to these empty provocations with something real,’ wrote Air Force Colonel Dai Xu in China’s Global Times last August. ‘This includes Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan, which are the three running dogs of the United States in Asia … We only need to kill one, and it will immediately bring the others to heel.’”

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/#post-51932

(China’s domino theory. And, “running dogs of the United States?” I thought that term died with Mao.)

From the same link:

Iranian on the street wants nuclear weapons

So says a Gallup Poll.

http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/#post-51932

Caveat: Poll was taken in Iran.