Herman Cain, warning us about something that happened a half-century ago (Cain: Steve Marcus / Reuters)
These days, Herman Cain is spending most of his waking hours coming up with new explanations about why he's not a sexual harasser. In his spare time, however, he's apparently decided to become an
armchair analyst of the nuclear arms race:
JUDY WOODRUFF: Do you view China as a potential military threat to the United States?
HERMAN CAIN: I do view China as a potential military threat to the United States. [...] They've indicated that they're trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.
Of course, China has had nuclear weapons since 1964. But as David Waldman points out, maybe Cain's discovered the soft underside of China's nuclear capability:
The problem with Chinese nuclear capability is that half a century later, you have to develop it all over again.
And Herman Cain is just the guy we need to protect us from that terrible threat.