Last week, I noted that the GOP's defense hawks have taken to accusing President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats of exploiting America's health care crisis to further their long-term "plot" to curtail defense spending -- and, by extension, our nation's capacity for military interventions abroad. The implied beneficiary of this "unilateral surrender"? Why, the Chinese, of course, who'd thereby be left free to conquer the developing world in their unending quest to secure raw materials.