”Made in China” Ping.
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Calling Nada Nadim Prouty. Please pick up the red courtesy phone.
As somebody who was around when Nixon opened the door I could see this coming
DETENTE was another screwup
Him and Kissinger were foreign policy idiots
MI Ping
It may be simplistic, but my understanding is that CIA really missed
the implosion of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
No suprise if our intelligence operatives (despite the good ones that
labor in dangerous, unsung roles) would miss the build up of another menace.
I just hope we at least have some good intell that percolates out into
the public consciousness.
Like the leakers in the British military that let Churchill know that
the British were NOT keeping up with the Germans in the years preceding
WWII.
I don’t know if you saw this but it’s pretty bad when DOD officials simply shrug their shoulders when asked who is manufacturing our military parts and equipment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502120.html?hpid=sec-nation
Government could function with only 50% of their current staffing AND if it could eliminate pc-ism and political patronage. BUT, I guess it is easier and more satisfying to continue to believe in the tooth ferry.
Real leaders are politically destroyed and incompetent wimps are encouraged by our present system. We are decaying within from and the stench is now noticable.
Our continuing Trade Deficit with China is just paying for their military. They bring their crap into the country, because it’s manufactured cheaply and take the monies to build that military.
These morons all need to be fired and replaced by any number of FReepers who have been watching China’s build-up with alarm, most notably, our pard Jeff Head. He’s been saying this for years, and now we find out that our wonderful government is surprised???? Where have they been?
Delivering a dozen nuclear attack submarines in a single year seems fast, perhaps a little too fast for the Chinese.
Given the close defense business relationship between the Chinese and Russian governments (e.g., the Chinese have the money and the Russians have the systems), is there any possibility that Russian shpyards are building and delivering these submarines covertly?
Might go a long way to explain where some of the surprises to US Intelligence are coming from.
Thank you George H. Bush, for normalizing trade relations with China.
Thanks also to the Clintons for selling off vital military technologies for campaign contributions.
And thanks to the current Bush for the recent military exchanges in which the chicoms get to roam US Navy vessles and facilities while denying us reciprocity in accordance with the agreements.
Just a few things to give thanks for theis weekend—while were still allowed to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Gee, ya mean its not a ‘slam dunk’?
Gosh, I’m just shocked....
(sarcasm)
I have not been surprised. And it probably comes as no surprise that for the past 6 years, Panda Huggers, Red Team idiots and other TRAITORS (THAT’S RIGHT.... THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE IN THESE GROUPS ... TRAITORS! ALL OF YOU, TO THE LAST MAN!) have been sliming me for telling the truth.
Whenever your foreign policy is dictated as per rioting college students and that policy is appeasement, you are gonna get screwed. Sometimes it just takes longer to feel the penetration.
Sending all our scrap metal to Japan doesn’t mean a thing. It’s all a part of doing business, opening trading channels to Asia, and making a buck. Oh, wait a minute. Wrong country, wrong century. Never mind.
This has got to be crap.
It doesn’t even take a government analyst to put two-and-two together to guess China will use some of that new found money to upgrade and build-out.
I think a blind man could see what’s going on.