The US is waging a war against china via proxy. If you notice they are stepping up efforts to replace regimes in africa(Egypt and Libya, for example) with regimes they can control. China has oil concessions with Gaddhafi and other african nations. What the US is doing is they are controlling Chinese access to light, sweet crude oil.
If china had her way with africa, it may just be a matter of time before africa develops faster compared to the philippines(pun intended, although honestly I don't care)
If war does happen, let's just hope this purges everything wrong with our government, including our constitution.