PLAYING THE CHINA CARD

Several years ago Bill "Slots" Bennett and others tried to drum up some fear about the growth of China.  It didn't catch on with the general public back then but now that there may be some real cuts to the DoD budget, Mark Halprin gets some oped space in the WSJ to give it another try.
This is perhaps Halprin's most absurd point:

The United Sates Navy need not follow the Royal Navy into near oblivion.

As I noted below, we have about twice as many aircraft carriers as the rest of the world COMBINED.