To: UCFRoadWarrior
Nice move, miliatrily....but useless if the US continues subsidizing the ChiComs via Free Trade with Communist China.
It is going to be hard to defend that base if the Chinese decide to do something about it. It could be pasted with IRBMs from China and their subs long before the bombers got off the ground. Trying to defend an island that far from the US against the massive military power of China would render the men their as doomed as the defenders of Corregidor were in 1941.
In 1940 in order to make a statement and deter Japanese aggression in the Pacific FDR moved the US Pacific fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor. We all know how well that worked out. Now Obama is going to move our strategic bombers and Aircraft Carriers from bases in the continental US out to Guam.
11 posted on
10/25/2010 2:44:12 PM PDT by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
Kinda like building a big target....
When China goes "stupid", we'll simply blow them off the face of the earth. Have to stay "moveable"...
To: GonzoGOP
16 posted on
10/25/2010 2:51:06 PM PDT by
tired1
(Federalize the Fed)
To: GonzoGOP
Guam has always been too far away to defend. It was true in 1940. It is true today.
24 posted on
10/25/2010 3:21:20 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(We are so screwed.)
To: GonzoGOP
They do that and Trident warheads will impact on the
Tienanmen Sq and elsewhere in the Peoples Republic.
No, they won’t lift a finger against us.
25 posted on
10/25/2010 3:26:12 PM PDT by
rahbert
To: GonzoGOP
Don’t worry, a few growls from the dragon and this Guam project along with our beloved Tnediserp will fold up like an accordion.
OTOH, if the Chicoms don’t growl, it may be because they have a Tanaka Plan of their own. Worked for the Japs, at least for a while.
28 posted on
10/25/2010 3:32:42 PM PDT by
elcid1970
("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
To: GonzoGOP
"It is going to be hard to defend that base if the Chinese decide to do something about it. It could be pasted with IRBMs from China and their subs long before the bombers got off the ground. Trying to defend an island that far from the US against the massive military power of China would render the men their as doomed as the defenders of Corregidor were in 1941."We USED to have bases of this size in the Philippines...even larger.
If the Chinese hit Guam, they will be signing up for total nuclear war...and they know it.
Guam is US Territory. They may as well hit LA.
31 posted on
10/25/2010 4:51:57 PM PDT by
Mariner
(USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
To: GonzoGOP
Not only did the move to Pearl work, it worked stunningly well. Compac won the war in the Pacific from the Hawaiian bastion.
39 posted on
10/26/2010 4:54:35 AM PDT by
bert
(K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... Greetings Jacques. The revolution is coming)
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