Posted on 11/26/2013 9:11:41 AM PST by Nachum
Edited on 11/26/2013 9:30:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON
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Diversionary Tactics. Nothing more. Anything to get in the news and get OFF of the Obamacare fiasco.
War is a major distraction— just like FDR. And everyone would have to enroll in national health for the “defense effort”. This is like russia’s use of xenophobia to distract from the CPSU and stalin’s murderous policies and starvation.
FDR did it to distract from failures to cure the Depression.
An ELINT mission. The EB-52 carries tons (literally) of electronic intelligence and ECM gear. I’m sure this sortie gave us an update on China’s electronic tactical capabilities.
Thailand?
Of the Nimitz carriers, only seven are currently available. Three are in maintenance with the Lincoln in the middle of its 4-year RCOH rebuild.
I think protectionists should offer to pay higher taxes for those who cannot afford them. It’s working for Obamacare.
The story says “-—without notifying Beijing”-—that would be “not”.
EB-52 is a fictional aircraft invented by my friend Dale Brown.
One could wish they didn’t like the chinee money that is funding their “no budget” admin through the Fed. The Fed selling T bills to chinee, etc. The Clintons... not so much since it was Riady et al and John Huang and many other examples of chinee techno spying and influence which paid their political fee.
I’d say someone listened to someone in the Pentagon for a “pee on my foot” move with prior intel they would not be challenged. Someone who gets the need to “keep face” by the chinee. Japan going at the Chinese is a good thing— old animosities keep them occupied. Counting on the chinee to keep N. Korea in check? No helped by this much.
Last picture is before they were converted from coal powered.
Yes. Diversionary tactic ... But there is more. Obama is trying to counter his dropping poll numbers. He thinks if he appears to doing something - anything - it might help. It’s about his poll numbers which are now lower than G W Bush’s.
I wholly concur.
Dems always love to start aggressive actions to counter their poll numbers. Clinton and Kosovo anyone?
:p
Stil, Japan should be in on these things, although that might have been a pretext for China to try something
Need to get the envirowacko’s over there to stop drilling in their waters like they do here.
How?
Japan is dying off of old age. They don’t have the men to defend themselves against China.
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