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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Looks like a pretty strategic location to me.


10 posted on 04/01/2009 9:40:07 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: CougarGA7
Looks like a pretty strategic location to me.

And yet the U.S. forces working their way to Japan via New Guinea and the Philippines were able to bypass it. Perhaps the Spratlys central location did not yield the strategic benefits one would expect.

11 posted on 04/01/2009 10:07:47 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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