Michael Ledeen — American Writer born on August 01, 1941,

Michael Arthur Ledeen is an American historian, philosopher, neoconservative foreign policy analyst, and writer. He is a former consultant to the United States National Security Council, the United States Department of State, and the United States Department of Defense. He held the Freedom Scholar chair at the American Enterprise Institute where he was a scholar for twenty years and now holds the similarly named chair at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies... (wikipedia)

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.
I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.