Posted on 10/29/2013 10:06:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Japan-China: Four Chinese military aircraft --two H-6 bombers and two Y-8 surveillance aircraft -- flew southeast from the East China Sea to the Pacific Ocean over waters between the Okinawa main island and Miyako on Friday afternoon, according to officials at Japan's Joint Staff Office. The Japanese Air Self Defense Force scrambled fighters.
Later, the Chinese aircraft returned on the same route. Japanese officials said it is the third time that Chinese military planes have been spotted flying over waters between the Okinawa main island and Miyako Island.
Last Wednesday, five Chinese navy ships passed between the two islands and headed for the Pacific.
Comment: The Chinese are establishing their right of passage based on routine practice. Thus far they appear to be avoiding Japanese airspace and territorial waters, but that will change in time.
Iraq:Update. This weekend featured another surge in attacks, mainly against Shiites.At least 88 people were killed and 203were wounded in a series of coordinated bombings and other attacks on 27 October. Eight attacks occurred in Baghdad; six in Mosul and 10 in other towns.
Comment: October is on track to be one of the most violent and deadly months since 2006.
Syria-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW):For the record. The Syrian government has submitted a formal declaration of the chemical weapons in its possession and a plan for their removal.
The OPCW made the announcement Sunday, saying Syria had submitted its declaration last Thursday, three days before the Sunday deadline. The OPCW governing council will review Syria's plan by 15 November.
If we are not there? Good let them kill each other.
Now that bin laden is room temp? Leave and let them kill each other there too.
If I were a foreign leader, the lesson I get from this is that the a large segment of the US elite, and its related political class, has lost its sense of any national purpose, and ability to commit long-term to anything..
The sacrifices of thousands of good men and women are being squandered by our feckless Golfer in Chief and his bunch of America-hating incompetents.
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