years ago, you know, when we had the uss cole issue, the two embassy attacks. what we are facing today is different because we have major adversaries that are right before us. we have the chinese and the russians, and is and then we re spread thin on the war on terror. these things aren t going to go away, and it s going to become far her complex than it has been for a long time. neil: real quickly, passing along these stories of the chinese aircraft getting very close to taiwan. i think it s 30 planes over the last couple of days. that might be dated information too. we hear of more of the sorties in and around taiwan. what do you make of all of this? this has been going on for some time but building up, clearly. what henry kissinger said recently is we re on the foothills of a new cold war. i wrote a book three years ago saying we are really replicating the indicators of the cold war that i experienced in europe