What is the Greatest Threat to the US

In the October 22, 2012 debate moderator Bob Schieffer said with the rise of China – what do you believe is the greatest future threat to the national security of this country? President Obama said – I believe it will continue to be terrorists. In regard to China, it is both an adversary and a potential partner in the national community if it’s following the rules. Americans have seen jobs being shipped overseas, businesses and workers not getting a level playing field when it came to trade that’s why I set up a task force to go after cheaters when it came to international trade, that’s why we’ve brought more trade cases against China for violating trade rules than the previous administration did in 2 terms and we’ve won most cases – he went on to talk about steel and tire cases and Romney said he was being too tough in the tire case; President Obama said in the long run we have to take care of business here-he repeated education and more; he said Romney’s budget won’t allow us to make those investments.

Romney first replied with his - it’s not government that makes businesses, etc. speech; he said the greatest threat is a nuclear Iran and went on to say China has an interest like ours – they want a stable world, they want the economy to work and the world to be free and open so we can be a partner with them if they’re willing to be responsible; they look at us and wonder how strong we’re going to be, they look at our economy – we owe $16 trillion, they look at us cutting back our military – the Secretary of Defense called the cuts devastating, they look at America’s commitments around the world and ask – will America be strong and the answer is ‘yes’ if I’m President; we’ll make trade relations that work for us – I’ve watched year in and year out as companies shutdown and people lost their jobs; he repeated the ways China is not acting fairly and his labeling of them as cheaters; he said they have to understand that we want to trade with them but they have to play fair. Schieffer said – if you label China a currency manipulator on day one some are saying you’ll start a trade war. Romney said there’s a silent trade war going on now we import more than we export and we can’t just surrender; he went on again about their unfair trade practices and said we can’t let it go on.

The President is aware that there will always be people that will dislike us and want to do us harm and as such our future will always be threatened by them. I think if Romney was sure of himself in stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon he would not have chosen that as the greatest threat to our future. I also believe Romney never answered the question that was posed in regard to his actions with China possibly creating a trade situation worse than today,