I think it’s time for the American public to open its eyes to what really is this nation’s national security threat.

Most people knew then, but all of us know now that 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. While we’ve been in the Middle East depleting our resources and running down our military preparedness, the Chinese have been slowly putting a choke hold on our economy.

Because U.S. corporations think in the short term of quarterly profits, it seems everything, and I mean everything, is now being produced in China. Our national debt is growing and we have nothing to export to pay down our debt because we have given our entire manufacturing base to China.

We are an agricultural nation and we are even accepting food imports from China.

We are now finding out food products are being exported to the U.S. with chemicals and other hazardous materials in them. It is not in the best interest of America’s national security to help China become more powerful than the U.S. This is clearly a national security threat of huge proportion.

There won’t be a shot fired in China’s war against the U.S.

We can’t buy a cigar in Cuba, but we can buy anything we want from China.

Robert Clark, Auburn