[Mamzelle]

I keep asking why Taiwan is valuable to us, how it is we have all these moral debts to all these nations who never never never step up to the plate when things get tough for the US.... and shortly the insults start. I could play that game..."Got some dough in Taiwan, huh, George P?"...

We can't keep opening new battle fronts, however much your money might be threatened. There's also a half-dozen potential fronts in Africa; the whole continent will probably be solidly Islam very shortly. I'd rather be red than sharia.

This thread reads like a little seminar trial-baloon--evangelizing for saving Poor Little Taiwan, an economic powerhouse. South Korea is another Poor Little Baby, with a giant military that somehow can neither protect itself or send a soldier to help us in Iraq

Nuts to them.

I suspect there's some global corporations that want their own little red/white/blue army. No way.

[jb6]

There's also a half-dozen potential fronts in Africa; the whole continent will probably be solidly Islam very shortly.

Subsahara Africa is solidly Christian and the conversion rates far surpress those of Islam. Ethiopia is officially Orthodox, Kenya and Cameroon are about to become. The catholic church gets a lot of its new priests from Africa too.