[Dah00n]

The biggest threat to the US is the US. Anyone calling another country “enemy” is a warmonger, IMO. China is not “the enemy”. They are, at most, a competitor. They aren't an invading force from Mars. They are human beings. This whole enemies right and left is very American and it is part of the state's Us versus Them that most Americans gobble up raw.

[ein0p]

Especially if the "other country" had seen no significant military action since 1991, when Sino-Vietnamese war ended, and in that time we completely destroyed 8 countries, had significant military action in 4 more, and overthrown some governments on top of that, with utterly devastating consequences in at least one country (Ukraine).