Some of the most impressive stuff the USA ever managed to do was for idealogical reasons. Like most of NASA's prime achievements could be seen as a big dick-wav

Some of the most impressive stuff the USA ever managed to do was for idealogical reasons. Like most of NASA's prime achievements could be seen as a big dick-waving contest with the USSR. If the USA wants to play similar games with China, some good may come of it that would never come from purely profit motivated agendas. It could just as easily be bad, too, of course. I usually don't like the USA government's idealogical reasons for doing anything, but I also usually don't like economic reasons either :)