U.S. Navy expands 5th Fleet's gulf base

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[af_vet_rr]

Sure what you say is accurate and logical. But the world often doesn't work in rational ways.

The Japanese could have gotten much further ahead had they chose a different path in 1941 I would think.

And the actions of Japan in WWII and other nations before and since, as well as Chinese history, is exactly is why the Chinese have decided to quietly and not-so-quietly undermine our economic power. I would dare say it's far cheaper to take us on economically than militarily, especially if they have the patience and the manpower, which they do.

[af_vet_rr]

The alternative is unthinkable.

We need to stop giving everything away.

Now.

Tell that to companies like Boeing, who even as they were signing technology and manufacturing agreements with Chinese companies, acknowledged that the Chinese were their biggest competitor in the long run.

When you have companies who knowingly enter contracts with other companies whose ambitions include replacing or undermining those companies in the future, you're in trouble.

Like I said, if our aerospace and defense industries start losing international sales to Chinese companies, we're going to be in serious trouble. We survived giving our computer industry away. We will not survive giving away too many more industries.

But hey, at least we can't give away the jobs like being door greeters at Wal-Mart. The Chinese have to have a place to sell their cheap crap somewhere!

[man_in_tx]

You were at many of them?

Do you work on the BRAC Commission?

[hedgetrimmer]

The Navy doesn’t have enough ships to look ‘tough on defense’.

And Admiral Mullen is telling sailors to leave the Navy if they don’t like, or have religous issues with the new gay directives from the president.

Nope, the Navy is reduced to flying the rainbow flag over Bahrain. That’s obama’s ‘show of defense’.

[andyk]

Do you work on the BRAC Commission?

Haha, no. I was an AF brat, and was also enlisted myself.

[hedgetrimmer]

Leon Panetta was a big winner in the closing of Fort Ord, in California.

He now has a taxpayer funded ‘institute’ on the former base, where his wife gets a handsome salary to run it.

There was a conference in California in 1996 I think, run by Mikhail Gorbachev, attended by many many politicians involved in base closings. The theme which has been accomplished around the country, was to close bases and then allow globalist institutes and schools take them over. In Fort Ord, not only does the rotten globalist Panetta institute exist, but a state university which teaches ‘social justice’ was also put there.

Gorbachev was handed keys to a ‘villa’ on the San Francisco Presidio, the minute it was shut down. How ironic that the communist enemy from the cold war, shooed the military away at the gateway to the pacific and and is ensconced in the military base as its prize tenet. Traitor politicians helped him.

Who won the cold war? Not US!

[man_in_tx]

Great post.