[VanShuyten]

To remove them from defending against the Chinese, of course.

[Candor7]

To remove them from defending against the Chinese, of course>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Exactly. America has lost the contest for the ME, just as Obama wanted, and now the process of the isolation of Israel begins.

Any ordnance used in the Syrian debacle will be like flushing good down the toilet, further disempowering our US military without making any progress towards re-establishing US influence in the Pacific or the ME.

In short we are robbing Peter to just pretend to pay Paul.

[silverleaf]

Yeap, who’s minding the Pacific AO in the absence of the HIANG ?

since the norks and Chinese who just sent ships to Alaska and the Russians flying toward our left coast have all been so peaceful lately