James Fallows, reports that according to Gary Hart and Lee Hamilton, Lynn Cheney wanted to start a war with China back in the pre-9/11 era because There was actually a deliberate search for an enemy because they felt that the Republican Party didn’t do as well according to Francis Fukuyama

Remember the April, 2001 China-U.S. Aircraft Collision Incident (pdf)? I don’t mean to suggest that this incident was planned, but it could have very well gone up Kahn’s Escalation Ladder. These people are insane.