Slouching towards World War III?
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What could possibly go wrong. Perhaps they are just doing a seven day tour of the holy land.
2 posted on
09/08/2013 2:10:32 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
W.B Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
3 posted on
09/08/2013 2:14:07 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
And Peru?
Did they send their ship?
Guess Barry won’t have a choice but, to launch. Otherwise he will look like an even bigger idiot.
6 posted on
09/08/2013 2:18:11 PM PDT by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Interesting.
China has a torpedo that is nearly impossible to defend against.
7 posted on
09/08/2013 2:31:16 PM PDT by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The last standing superpower on the planet comes to a showdown on the ocean and walks away… it’s not a pretty picture."
Nothing wrong with walking away. Plenty wrong with taking casualties just to assuage the bruised ego of an incompetent Afro-Marxist community organizer, who thinks himself a military strategist. Nobody needs to die, Boy Wonder. Accept it as a teachable moment, and walk away.
8 posted on
09/08/2013 2:31:53 PM PDT by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Comes to mind a circle of dogs snarling at one bone, which in this case is Syria.
The Middle East is a powder keg. It might not take much to create an explosion that sends repercussions throughout the world.
9 posted on
09/08/2013 2:35:50 PM PDT by
TomGuy
(.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Slouching towards World War III? Perhaps, but it won't be because of an LPD, unless we sink it by accident.
11 posted on
09/08/2013 2:40:15 PM PDT by
xone
To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
What is it with these other navy’s???
First the Russians send in an intell trawler with three “landing ships”...
Not much of a surface action group...
Now the Chicoms are sending a “landing ship” as well...
I wonder if we are getting sucked into a “rope a dope” here...
13 posted on
09/08/2013 2:42:45 PM PDT by
stevie_d_64
(It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They want to test ut their new toys...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Talk about a room full of mouse traps!
What happens if the Russians mistakenly target
a Chinese ship or the opposite? What about Anti-ship
missiles from Lebanon, or Syria. What a mess.
16 posted on
09/08/2013 2:53:08 PM PDT by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They saw us flying air support for the Libyan savages with AC-130s and A-10s.
That was the Obama adventure where arms and ordnance for the brave “Arab Spring freedom fighters” fell into the hands of al-Qaeda.
Everything about this latest Hussein venture is ‘snake-bit.’ If he isn’t resigning tomorrow, Americans of both parties should be asking why not.
19 posted on
09/08/2013 3:00:02 PM PDT by
tumblindice
(America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
ONE Chinese warship?
Pfffft.
Let me know when they get to 7-8. And they can’t rule the skies in the area, which means they are toast.
20 posted on
09/08/2013 3:09:03 PM PDT by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Making Obama flinch is becoming an international pass time.
22 posted on
09/08/2013 3:33:06 PM PDT by
Spok
To: 2ndDivisionVet
China doesn’t usually get involved in these confrontations. Wonder why they are willing to this time?
23 posted on
09/08/2013 3:35:07 PM PDT by
McGruff
(Strange times are these in which we live..)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
America shoots a few missiles. The Syrians ask for help and the Russians and Chinese raise the ante by landing some troops probably categorized as medical personnel.
29 posted on
09/08/2013 3:55:48 PM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
31 posted on
09/08/2013 4:04:32 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
...for the sight-impaired.
"China has reportedly sent warships to the coast of Syria to “observe” the actions of US and Russian ships...The 689-foot-long warship can carry 1,000 soldiers, helicopters, armored fighting vehicles, boats and landing craft, a report in the China Daily said."
32 posted on
09/08/2013 4:13:43 PM PDT by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Paddle fast. We have a long way to go.
37 posted on
09/08/2013 5:20:31 PM PDT by
scottiemom
(As Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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