Posted on 11/17/2004 10:32:59 AM PST by TapTheSource
"I really do think we're going to throw Taiwan under the bus on this one."
See post #60
Please see the information behind the following.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1282223/posts?page=59#59
All Billion of them?
The author here reveals himself to be a clueless nitwit.
Yet again forgets about the enormously powerful Japanese Navy. And Japan was a democracy, last time I checked.
Have you ever been to China? Your characterization is grossly inaccurate.
Defending Taiwan isn't going to really require any US ground troops at all. Just a fairly small portion of our already existing Navy and Air Force.
"What kind of help is Taiwan extending us in the WOT? I'd be happy to hear of it. Generally, our warmest allies are those who depend on us, not those allies we can depend on. With a few exceptions...GB, Aus, and Poland..."
Given Taiwan's location and Red China's sabre-rattling (backed up by a massive military build-up) I don't think Taiwan is in a position to send he badly needed troops anywhere else at the present moment.
Exactly, Source.
China wants Taiwan because Taiwan would provide the US a major staging ground of operations should a war break out between China and the US or if China were to invade its neighbors. Their economic interests are secondary as we have been foolish enough to boost their economy by buying cheap products produced by slave labor.
China knows that Taiwan would be a stage of operations. If they take it and we do nothing, they'll know we have no intentions of taking them on militarily. They will then be able to run roughshod over the entire region (India included).
If we stand up to their threats and send our military to protect Taiwan, they'll know we mean business and will have to follow another strategy.
As with so much of international strategy, the issue of the sovereignty of this tiny island and our allegiance to it has potentially catastrophic and certainly historical ramifications.
We must not abandon Taiwan. And, once again, it is up to conservatives to clean up the mess of Clinton and his Leftists. They were the great 'enablers' of China's increasing threats to take Taiwan.
If Taiwan is lost, Japan is next.
"If Taiwan is lost, Japan is next."
Bingo!...don't forget about S. Korea and then the Phillipines, etc. Very dangerous situation brewing.
China is currently incapable of invading Taiwan, and will be for a couple of decades.
The idea of China invading Japan is even more laughable, given that the Japanese Naval and Air Self-Defense Forces are both currently superior to China's and actually are getting more powerful at the same or an even faster rate than China's.
It's an evil government and I'd be thrilled if the entire PRC Politburo was run over by a bus tomorrow, but there are a variety of ax-grinding agendas given to frantically overhyping the capabilities of the PRC military in the same way the "1 million man battle-hardened desert-experienced Iraqi Army" was hyped before Gulf War I. These groups include:
1) Those looking to sell books and articles, and hype sells
2) Trade Protectionists
3) People so fanatically obsessed with Clinton loathing that they feel compelled to overstate the capabilities of the PRC military (almost entirely the result of Russian, French, and Israeli technology) so that it can be all blamed on Clinton.
Memo to self, do not invest money in China.....
Sigh, Wishful thinking. We can't even let one of out soldiers kill an enemy terrorist at this point.
This story of the marine has me pretty demoralized. I just don't see how we are every going to have a clear desicive victory again with this rulebook.
Many thanks. Taiwan is in good hands, at least for now.
Well, then America has plenty of lawyers to protect violence, force and not truth and peace. The result is that we will have invited a market for such evil on our own shore.... hence 911.
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