"Admiral Fallon said that US forces had not been looking for submarines at the time "
Nothing to worry about then - move on...
Too bad they weren't able to drive it ashore on Okinawa,
We'd have been glad to give it back, after the appropriate
apologies, of course they'd have to FLY it out.
Fallon is the admiral who delivered the apology to the Japanese after the submarine surfaced quickly and hit the ship with the students. He was the who bowed and the Japanese were very moved by it.
Better relationships? Sounds PC to me. My son is on the Kitty Hawk, this really bothers me.
I'm starting to think the Chinese could walk up to the Admiral.. spit on him, and get a handshake in return.
Hell, I'm starting to think they could nuke us and still no response from us.. wtf is happening to our goverment?
For quite some time I have thought that any warnings that might be necessary would have been better served when our P3 was knocked out of the air years ago.
At that time the Chinese went out of their way to dishonor the United States, including returning the plane via Russia.
China is getting too big for it's britches. The message would have easier to serve years ago. Now that message will have to be delivered to an adversary that is growing more troublesome by the day.
"Admiral Fallon said that US forces had not been looking for submarines at the time'
What? Since when is a task force ever NOT looking for subs?
Yeah, and we weren't looking for Jap planes on Dec 7, 1941, but that didn't stop them from attacking us.
After reading a few stories on this I had this thought. Is there ANY possibility that the Chinese sub didn't know the fleet was there? Outside possibility, but!
Where is Bush on this?
Why hasnt T.Snow-job come out to whitewash it?
Why arent the democrats saying "SEE SEE Bush is totally incompetent(they would be right to)!"
All the weenies running our country care about is themselves.
If the carrier collides with the Chinese sub, the Chinese get to keep the entire crew hostage for a month.
Someone has egg on their face.
Perhaps if we knew it was there, we do not want them to know we knew it was there.
Let them carry on in the ignorant bliss of their unknown unkowns...
in other words.... one of their subs is gonna turn up, missing. too bad, so sad.
With our boomers and other devices that are classified I'm sure that the Chinese could just "sneak up" and stalk a carrier.
So in about a month or so when we read about this "tragic" Chinese sub accident, we can just shrug our shoulders and say, "don't know what happened. We weren't anywhere near it when it disappeared.... or were we?"