[etradervic]

I believe America cannot win as it has a civic society that must adhere to the value of respecting lives," Mr. Ishihara said in an address to the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. Mr. Ishihara said U.S. ground forces, with the exception of the Marines, are "extremely incompetent" and would be unable to stem a Chinese conventional attack.

He must be the Japanese version of a Dem. I think that his full name is Mr. Murtha Ishihara.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Mr. Ishihara, should know of all peoples, that when the U.S. commits its entire country to war, it doesn't settle for anything less than total surrender. China would not be a ground force war anymore than mainland Japan was a ground force war.

[strategofr]

" He must be the Japanese version of a Dem."

You got it.

[M1Tanker]

Extremely incompetent huh? Is that why single US Army companies take out enemy brigades Ishihara san?? Is that why single brigades destroy whole enemy Corps without losing a squad (many times, not even that)? Is that why US Army units annihilate everything in their path when fighting while maintaining extremely low casualty rates?

Don't get me wrong, I know the USMC is very competent and if this appeaser had insulted them, I would say the exact same things.

Idiots like Mr. Ishihara just burn me up.

[defenderSD]

"Mr. Ishihara said U.S. ground forces, with the exception of the Marines, are 'extremely incompetent' and would be unable to stem a Chinese conventional attack."

This man has no idea what he's talking about, or else this is a bad translation of what he actually said. Our ground forces are highly competent and extremely brave, as Iraq found out during Desert Storm and the first month of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The problems we're having in Iraq lately are because we're fighting an insurgent force that is mixed in with the civilian population and we can't use our superior firepower against them without causing a lot of civilian casualties.

I'm not sure why he's even talking about ground forces, because any armed conflict with China would be a Naval war on the sea to stop an amphibious invasion of Taiwan. If it happened in the next few years, I think our Navy would decimate a Chinese invasion force headed for Taiwan, and Taiwan might even be able to do that alone. Ships on the open sea make easy targets for today's precision-guided missiles and bombs. It's not going to be so easy for China to invade Taiwan wihout nuking Taiwan first.

[fallujah-nuker]

He must be the Japanese version of a Dem. I think that his full name is Mr. Murtha Ishihara.


Shintaro Ishihara.

Remember his book?