To: RightWhale
You know if China wanted to take Taiwan.... Right now would be a good move... Were about to be paralyzed by two storms, you have Iraq.... Our guys are stretched to say the least...
To: Sprite518
...You know if China wanted to take Taiwan.... Right now would be a good move...
--I think they'll wait until autumn 2008, just after they host the Olympics.
1,661 posted on
09/21/2005 1:00:37 PM PDT by
Shqipo
(And so the great battle starts...)
To: Sprite518
The Pres is watching out. He is watching the hurricane, but he also has his eye on international situations. Nobody is going to sneak a move.
1,680 posted on
09/21/2005 1:03:14 PM PDT by
RightWhale
(We in heep dip trubble)
To: Sprite518
Their ships would just start disappearing, our LA class's don't care about hurricanes.
1,725 posted on
09/21/2005 1:11:33 PM PDT by
conservativewasp
(Liberals lie for sport and hate their country. Islam is a terrorist organization.)
To: Sprite518
***You know if China wanted to take Taiwan.... Right now would be a good move...***
Lots of fleet assets have been repositioned to Asia, and the New Hunter-Killers stationed in Guam could make for a really bad day if your a Chinese conscript....
Unless China comes up with about 150,000 troops that can swim the 157 miles to Taiwan while carrying full combat packs, youre still a good 15 years away from that...
To: Sprite518
You know if China wanted to take Taiwan.... Right now would be a good move... To what? Build a bridge?
And how are we "stretched"?
1,954 posted on
09/21/2005 1:55:51 PM PDT by
TomB
("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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