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1 posted on 06/16/2014 9:09:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Chicoms are loving the Obama presidency. They’ve hacked all our computers, stole all our patents, now time to attack Japan!


2 posted on 06/16/2014 9:10:28 PM PDT by Viennacon
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Sssshhhh. Don’t wake up the ‘bring jobs back’ broken record parrot.


3 posted on 06/16/2014 9:13:51 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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If it Comes to War, Can the US Compete With China?

Given the quality of our current political leadership, I doubt we could win a shootout with Canada.

4 posted on 06/16/2014 9:15:31 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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The other scenario, then, is that the military-industrial complex is as fat and lazy as we assume it is, but that it would quickly get into a fighting trim if a crisis called for it.

No kidding. A lot of half-assed weapons systems were deployed at the beginning of WWII because they were needed and there was no time to test them properly beforehand. Any conflict with China would involve weapons under development being deployed willy-nilly. While glitches will be inevitable, development would be sped up because users would learn about their capabilities and limitations under live fire from intelligent adversaries instead of having to gin up artificial test scenarios that attempt to guess what an adversary would and could do with his suite of weaponry.

5 posted on 06/16/2014 9:19:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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More important than weapons in war is the will on the part of the leaders and the people to fight and win.

We’re about to lose Iraq and Afghanistan, as we did Vietnam, not because the enemy has more or better weapons, but because they have a stronger will to fight and win and have a cause in which they fervently believe in.


6 posted on 06/16/2014 9:20:19 PM PDT by aquila48
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Yes.

We have about 20 aircraft carriers. They might have one.

It would be tough. /s


7 posted on 06/16/2014 9:23:38 PM PDT by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

General Bergdahl will save us!


8 posted on 06/16/2014 9:24:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sure, or used to, before Øbama and the purges.

But even if PRESIDENT Regan were running the show, it would not be easy.

China has some, what, 1.5 Billion people? Something tells me that losing a hundered (or two) million or so to war, would not concern them in the least.

‘Quantity has a quality all it’s own.’ - Uncle Joe Stalin.

Nobody in government would use the means necessary ( and China is a compact country compared to the former, and current, USSR) to counter such an attack, even if same were used against us.


9 posted on 06/16/2014 9:26:24 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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Even this sober article doesn’t acknowledge that China plans to destroy our homeland with nuclear hellfire. They plan to win, not sit around for years while we rebuild a navy.


11 posted on 06/16/2014 9:34:32 PM PDT by Williams
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China is building an island.

Well, send some Dem Congressmen and tip that thing over!

13 posted on 06/16/2014 9:47:40 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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It will be an epic bitch slap, hands down and we’re the one delivering it.

Bring it you kommie midgets. ...


16 posted on 06/16/2014 10:10:36 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; blueyon; KitJ; T Minus Four; xzins; CMS; The Sailor; ab01; txradioguy; ...

Active Duty ping.


18 posted on 06/16/2014 10:14:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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It would not get to a war. Google John L. Perry's "without firing a Shot" for a great story about how they have us by the balls.

WE CAN NOT DEFEAT RADICAL ISLAM--A mere mosquito compared to a Chinese DRAGON. Hell, we can not defeat MEXICO.

22 posted on 06/17/2014 2:06:04 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation)
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The US had problems pushing back China in the Korean War when it brutally poor. Short of nuclear weapons, forget about now.


24 posted on 06/17/2014 5:19:07 AM PDT by sunrise_sunset
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Another failed history lesson for current leadership. The United States won WWII largely because of its’ industrial capacity. Thanks to our outsourcing, we no longer have this advantage. Any future war would rely on pinpoint strikes of missiles and nuclear weapons. I doubt that current leadership has the resolve to use such weapons and strongly suspect that our military systems have been compromised by hacking and illegal sales of technology. Disarm the American citizen and we’re ripe for a takeover.


27 posted on 06/17/2014 6:22:03 AM PDT by Boomer One
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