Posted on 08/07/2006 11:49:46 AM PDT by Paul Ross
LOL
And thanks for not pointing out "save" should have been "safe". Drat!!!
I don't think China and the U.S. will have any armed confrontation. To my knowledge, China has never supported the U.S. in international affairs as much as the U.K. has (to give an example), but that doesn't mean that China is "against" the U.S. by any means.
Thanks to Clinton
And will be shadowed at ALL times with a neat little SSN from our side ready to send it to the bottom if he hears launch prep.
I should have inserted 'series' and 'hugh' along with that 'save', just to be uniform.
"Why does China think we will attack them??"
Because we might. Imagine a world where china was wiped off the map. Manufacturing jobs for everyone and cheap oil. It has to look very attractive to 10% of the population of the US. Ok, extermination of over a billion people has its drawbacks but the people of the US have gotten used to the good life and being top dog in the world. Exterminating china would solve a lot of problems.
I will say that 90% of the US is opposed to this because they are decent people, but 10% of the US would kill their mother for cheap gas, lots of money and returning the US to top dog status. Hell, we have 20,000 people killing US citizens every year for a lot less than that.
Russia is the one barking the orders to the skillet manners...
We have known about China's boomer capability for several years. It is not alarming. China knows we can see to the bottom of the ocean as if it were a clear air on a sunny day at the beach.
It is not in the interests of either side so I agree, but if it happens it will be like this.
US trade deficit, oil shortages and massive layoffs in the manufacturing sector, combined with an unbearable debt burden, trigger a near depression in the US. The only way out is for the US to position a nuclear sub near china, launch a chinese looking missle and nuke a small city in the US. This would be a good excuse for elimnating china, having all the treasury bonds they own (about 1 trillion) go into default, lower prices on all commodities, immediately have US manufacturing boom, cure the US trade deficit, have oil a plenty, have a large new frontier area available for US colonization in about 100 years or so (the US would demand this as reparations), etc.
I agree with your post 29 completely.
(Answer: you bet they would.)
Not really happening. Bush has still firmly kept Theater Ballistic Missile Defense, TBMD, cancelled. He has kept cancelled any fix of Aegis's SM-3, refusing to authorize the Flight IIa upgrade (undoing the damage of Xlinton's down-grading the engineering...preventing it from being a real ICBM-killer) .
Light weight Kinetic Interceptor, still cancelled.
All NMD Deployments...limited to futility. Even THEL, theater High Energy Laser remains cancelled. Still. Despite the insanity in Lebanon.
All limits in place. The withdrawal from the ABM Treaty was mere political pandering. He took its practical impact away with his side-deals.
... as well as retarget, and improve, our existing arsenal to deal with China.
You are aware that we are still drastically reducing our strategic arsenal...?
Last couple of articles I read on our (U.S.) Defensive/Strategic posture...we're doing exactly that.
Wrong. Read here. Independent Working Group on Missile Defense.
Wake us when W officially renounces the "strategic framework agreement" that he signed with Vladmir Putin as a secret attachment to the Moscow Strategic Armament Reduction Treaty in '02....and announces his intention to deploy real Aegis NMD, dedicated NMD ships, with an upgraded SM-3 Flight IIa interceptor... and a robust fleet of Brilliant Pebbles satellite missile interceptors ASAP.
From what I have seen, he is wearing full-time the same rose-colored glasses worn by his buddy Bill Xlinton.
While China has been devoting massive resources to equip, upgrade and provide the necessary resources to their military to compete if not move ahead of the U.S. The U.S. has stifled defense budgets, ransacked defense programs, targeted military spending cuts, and has sought actively to undermine our military at every level.
I'd say any missles left after the first strike can be considered second strike. Is this anything new?
What I don't get is you never hear any tests of these missiles. How can you know a 13,000km range missile actually works unless you test fire a couple 13,000kms?
Why wipe out the US when they can and are buying it up instead ?
If anyone launches first, it will be the USA in order to regain ownership the stocks, bonds, debt instruments, title to land that the chinese are accumulating.
and the most ridiculous idea award goes to..
Thank you, billclinton, you SOB.
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