[MrConfettiMan]

china leaves no doubt(even our cia can see that they are going to take taiwan within weeks or months...a sure thing...

Care to back up your assertion with some facts? One would think if China had any serious interest in invading Taiwan they would have done so when Slick Willie was in the White House. After all, there's no better guarantee of getting the United States to look the other way than having the president on your payroll.

[gPal]

my remarks are only a hypothetical scenario...i don't know if china is going to move on taiwan...but "what if they did", under normal circumstances, as savage beast pointed out, as long as we are percieved as being much stronger than china or russia et al, there is little chance of our being attacked...what worries me is that if we move on iraq, which must be done,...we may be vulnerable... just one possibility... china decides while we are fighting two wars to move on taiwan...we could easily be attacked if we get involved militarily...lots of ifs and just a scenario

[Stavka2]

Why? The US military is barely able to do one major war at a time, so wait until Iraq and take Taiwan, that simple. This, dispite having a budget larger then the next 15 nations combined. Ever wonder where $340 billion of your dollars are going, surely not to feed those US military families sitting on welfare. How many fat cat companies are sucking down your money on failed or over budget over dead line projects like F22 or the Crusader, when other nations are already developing such technologies for cheaper.