Why must US fret over China exercising America’s same right to national security?

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

That seems elementary enough — at least for those of us who studied Modern Times and the Living Past threescore and two years ago at the Mapa High School — to be recognizable as Abraham Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address.” Whenever one talked then about democracy, he inevitably dropped into those words; no others seemed fit enough to describe man’s primordial right to be free.