I find this terrifying. Any insight, anyone?

[mburbank]

Even the argument for complete domination doesn't hold much water. Vast military superiority, sure, but domination through the threat of total anihilation of a foe? That's the only thing we coould possibly use a larger more modern arsenal for, an I don't think anyone believes we'd do it.

It's literal madness to enlarge our stockpile. A costly watse at very best. Nixon had a supposed stragtegy of mking our enemies think he was crazy enough to end the world. Is this what Bush is trying to do? I don't think so, and that only leaves the possibility that all thses neo cons actually ARE friggin' nuts. The religous ones want to hasten the second coming through armegeddon, and the non religous think they can utterly dominte the wasteland.

The reason I mention China is that there is strand of neocon thinking that sees China becoming a soviet style superpower in the near future and our enemy. The most sane spin I can put in this is that they want a massive deterent in place for that eventuality.