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Old 01-29-2010, 11:39   #3
Richard
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...downgrade China from a first to a second priority.
Before anyone here gets their vicky secret thongs in yet another OpEd twist, it might be worth considering how little difference might exist between a priority 1 and 2 task at that level when viewed in context among a few of our intelligence community's on-going highest priority concerns - such as maybe support to military operations, proliferation, narcotics trafficking, terrorism, and global crime.

Remember - it's a BIG world out there...and being #1 or #2 on such a list of priorities might not be much of a difference after all.

However - YMMV - and so it goes...

Richard's $.02
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