Franklin
Posted on 04/17/2002 8:46:42 AM PDT by codebreaker
What other date on the calendar has about the same meaning as 911 (emergency)?? MAYDAY! These ChiComs love symbolism - and the coincidences are lining up behind these little b@stards to the point that they no longer appear to be "coincidental". They saw how our government kept one of the two chief executives sequestered away in safety after 911. Now they are sending their VP in as bait to get them both in the open at the same time. (Tell me that their president wouldn't use his apparent heir as bait. Go ahead, try.)
Yep, of course.
Thanks b4 for this important ping. I might have missed it. Thanks.
You know, this is true in theory but I bet if you think of the actual reality around us you will see that reality is something different.
1) The US government and the Fortune 500 (or 1000) are completely separate things. They often see themselves as in conflict with each other. Therefore US policy forms no comprehensive "front" with US business interests.
2) The US Fortune 1000 are each separate, competing entities. The do not coordinate in detail with each other regarding foreign investments & policies, etc., therefore US business overall has no comprehensive "front" in regard to foreign competition.
3) The US Fortune 1000 have steadily made themselves global in that they have come to depend on foreign suppliers, foreign producers and all manner of transportation infrastructure.
If you compare the US to, say, Japan or France or even Britain, it is easy to look at raw numbers and say we surpass these countries in this or that statistic. But where we act and respond like 1,000 (or more) individual units, those guys have a defined (and, more importantly, believed in) cultural identity and national policies which direct them in acting as single units.
In a military campaign, a well-disiplined unit of small numbers can often cut right through a vastly larger force of unpracticed, uncoordinated rabble... Business is war...
We've seen, over the last few years, that America as a "super power" militarily has been something of a joke. We're seeing in Bush's stumbling around the Middle East that the US as a political super power is a joke. Looking at the fragmented nature of US business and government, I think a person could make the case that as an economic super power the US is a joke.
Mark W.
I'm sure he's not wasting any time in Europe making sure it happens. That way, we can all "share the wealth for peace."
I swear, this guy is the anti-Christ. Nobody alive today fits the description so well.
During the altercation between the USA and China over our EP-3 the USS Chicago sailed into the Port of Sasebo in Japan. Great story, Oops, there's a nuclear sub in town! Just goes to show what flexing muscle can accomplish!
It's not 1944 you know. There are other ways to move troops, and China has lots of commercial airliners, and a fair amount of commerical shipping too. They could just as well take an airfield through a combination of bombardment and airborne assault, possibly with helicopters. Then they'd use that field to bring in many more troops, and using their supperior numbers of aircarft to keep the ROCs from taking it back. The first objective after securing the airfield would be to take a port, where reinforcements and heavy stuff could be landed by commerical cargo ships. To pull this off however they would have to achieve at least local air superitority over a good portion of the Island, and of course they'd have to control the Taiwan Straits too, by a combination of Naval and Air power. They might have a chance to do that against the ROC, but not against the US, unless of course the US Navy, is tied down elsehwere. Of course they could miscalculate and think the entire US Navy was so tied up, but in reality it might be just the carriers, with the subs and some surface combatents free to defend the ROC. A few attack subs could pretty sink the PLA Navy, including it's subs, and any "civilian" PRC cargo ships that might get caught out of port. (Or maybe even in port, via Harpoons and Thomahawks)
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