and America takes another one in the........
rlmorel
Posted on 08/22/2010 5:39:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Carrier to avoid drill in Yellow Sea
August 21, 2010
The U.S.S. George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, will not take part in the second of a series of the combined military drills between South Korea and the United States following the Cheonan sinking, the UN Command said yesterday.
An initial plan to mobilize the 97,000-ton aircraft career in the drill, scheduled to be held in the Yellow Sea early next month, drew strong protest from China, leading some to worry about a physical confrontation between the world’s superpowers.
“The George Washington is not scheduled to participate in this ASW [anti-submarine warfare] exercise,” the UN Command said in a statement.
The UN Command added that the George Washington will be mobilized for future exercises and operate in the waters off the Korean Peninsula, but did not specify the Yellow Sea, suggesting it will be kept out of the waters near China.
The first combined drill following the Cheonan sinking, dubbed “Invincible Spirit,” and held between July 25-28, involved the George Washington, but only in the East Sea after a hostile Chinese response to a ASW drill in the Yellow Sea.
Asked why the plan to dispatch the George Washington to the Yellow Sea was changed, an official from the UN Command said, “Nothing had been decided about it, so it is not a change.”
The official stressed that the drill is defensive by nature and is designed to send a message of deterrence to North Korea.
Local analysts such as Lee Nae-young, an international relations professor at Korea University, said China's response obviously affected the decision.
Beijing reacted angrily to the planned Yellow Sea drill by Seoul and Washington, with the People's Liberation Army Daily warning of a physical response in an editorial last week.
“If someone harms me, I must harm them,” the editorial warned.
Many observers, however, said the U.S. decision not to send the George Washington was not a fear of China but a strategic choice.
“The U.S. has several issues in which it needs cooperation from China such as sanctioning Iran and pushing North Korea toward denuclearization,” said Jun Byoung-kon, a China expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification.
Said Lee Tai-hwan, a researcher at the Sejong Institute: “The U.S. appears to have judged that it is better to avoid unnecessary misunderstanding.”
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Our enemies (one example: Iran) watch these events, and smile.
Borrowing [trillions] has consequences.
That drill costs money. Money better spent on more food stamps for Mexicans.
Gosh... I am so totally surprised.
/sarc
Someone cue up the “Sir Robin” theme song!
We should use it to replace “Hail to the Chief” for as long as Obama is in office.
Obama's religion and citizenship notwithstanding, of course.
And when was it decided that China is now a 'superpower', and who decided it?
Would not be surprised that the Liberal Globalists in both parties, who support Free Trade with Communist China, told Obama to keep the carrier out. Of course, Obama is just another Liberal Globalist
Obama gets a new name: Old Yellow Stains.
I guess the plan to have this exercise did not have the prior approval of the muslim in chief. I cannot wait for the end of his reign of demestic terror and foreign ass kissing to end. i loved it when the super power Lybia (sarcasm) in the 80s mentioned something about a military exercise in the Med off their coast would be crossing a line of death...they did not know whose death they were talking about. We kow tow to everyone now, China, North Korea, Iran, Putin, even some pirates in row boats. What a slide into oblivion.
and America takes another one in the........rlmorel
well...when the president of an undisputed superpower bows to your dictator, i suppose you can call yourself a superpower.
ping
I would not that obama kow tows to everyone. He comes down hard on legitimate gun owners,Christians,former military, Bible believers, the Constitution and those who believe that it should be followed.
Obama gets a new name: Old Yellow Stains
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Please refrain from comparing or likening BO to Capt Queeg and/or the gallant men of the (fictional) USS Caine.
Although he is pretty much in line with Keefer.
Thank You.
“And when was it decided that China is now a ‘superpower’, and who decided it? “
bill clintoon
I was at UCLA the other day and stood in the spot where Willie Keith sat during his commissioning ceremony.
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