It would be very ugly and it won’t look like Iraq.
I heard Savage talking one time about how there are 10 million more men in China — and he was theorizing how they could be used in war. Scary.
Hey, we have Free Trade™ with China, they are our friends now! /sarc
....now with president coconut cutting military and defense, and going after manufacturing and development....who knows?
If we had a war with China, the proper first step would be to nuke their 20 largest cities.
Seriously.
For some reason, when I read this article, I thought of you. $;-)
General Douglas MacArthur wanted to A-bomb China in 1951 but was fired for the suggestion. Now we have a double no win situation where China has the winning hand in either a conflict between North and South Korea, and also with armed invasion of Taiwan. If North Korea pervails against South Korea, then Japan is threatened and/or attacked as well to settle old scores from Japanese invasion of China during WWII.
As the greatest US general said in 1951, “There is no substitute for victory.”
So how’s that “free trade” thing working out America?
A war with China would bring an economic ice age upon us. Women, children and minorities would be most affected.
But what would China gain? That’s the question.
Here’s a way to stop the whole thing. Give Taiwan nuclear weapons and a few submarines from which to launch them. Neither side is likely to use them as neither side comes from a suicide culture. (Unlike Islamists, who exult in suicide.)
I’ll guarantee you when Obambi failed to respond to the Chinese invasion of an island claimed by China and Japan, that Japan began their own nuclear program; constitution be damned. When Obambi responded to the North Korean sinking of the Chonan with a stiff note saying he “highly deplores” that SK started working on nukes. Taiwan was paying attention and I’m sure they did too. I’ll bet they all rang up the Israeli’s and invited the trade delegation or ambassador for tea.
I’d be shocked if all three don’t already have working prototypes ready to test. They’ll do it someplace quietly when the satellites are all over the horizon. But they’ll all need a credible number of nukes and survivable platforms from which to launch them.
I’d also guess you’ll see a new alliance: India, Israel, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. All of this proliferation will lie at the feet of the man who so wants to emasculate America and turn the world into liberal fantasy land
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It’s hard to picture Obama taking decisive action like Truman in 1950 or George H. W. Bush when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. This is the guy who took months to make up his mind whether to send any additional forces to Afghanistan. The Chinese may figure that their best bet to take over Taiwan in the near future is while he is in office. But they may decide that a re-elected Obama would be even less likely to do anything than one who is running for re-election, so action after November 2012 may be more likely than anything before then.
This won’t happen because China has boxed her self in. In three words, Three Gorges Dam!
China doesn’t need its military to hurt us; it already builds so much for us that cutting off trade would hurt. Add in calling in our debt to either hyperinflate the currency or demand the right to buy off shore oil leases where Americans have been banned or buy up federally owned “wilderness” to mine or farm as they are doing in Africa today.
A most dubious assumption. I could make a killing on Intrade with that.