Floating Money in the Drive-Through

"War Plan Red" is odd... The US has long had some single-minded obsession with invading Canada that I just can't understand... Happened during the revolutionary war. It was step #1 in the war of 1812, which went wrong and incidentally the White House was burned down. Then with the Oregon territory dispute of "54-40 or Fight!" fame, as if history had shown war to be such a great idea.

Whatever obsessed Napoleon with Russia seems to exist in US/Canada relations, too.

"War Plans" are intellectual exercises for training and evaluation. A friend of mine was involved with one where colonels had authority to use tactical nuclear weapons. There was an interesting one where we were invaded by space aliens.

Don't doubt the Chinese are going to call in their debt and alter the US map in the process. We have become the bully of the block, and the block has one huge kid capable of kicking our asses, all he needs is the motivation.