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U.S. Directly Challenges China's Air Defense Zone (Pair of American B-52 Bombers Fly Over)
wsj ^ | 11/26/13 | Julian Barnes

Posted on 11/26/2013 9:11:41 AM PST by Nachum

Edited on 11/26/2013 9:30:48 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: adiz; b52; bhoasia; challange; china; chinesemilitary; defense; redchina; zone
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To: skeeter

Diversionary Tactics. Nothing more. Anything to get in the news and get OFF of the Obamacare fiasco.


41 posted on 11/26/2013 10:14:30 AM PST by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights, they just turtle up. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the turtle.)
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To: Slambat
The jug-eared punk wants a war.
I think you're right - he reminds me of the president character played by Martin Sheen in "The Dead Zone". Only he wants to be fondled by a grey haired general while launching the missiles.
42 posted on 11/26/2013 10:18:48 AM PST by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: Slambat

War is a major distraction— just like FDR. And everyone would have to enroll in national health for the “defense effort”. This is like russia’s use of xenophobia to distract from the CPSU and stalin’s murderous policies and starvation.
FDR did it to distract from failures to cure the Depression.


43 posted on 11/26/2013 10:34:06 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Nachum

An ELINT mission. The EB-52 carries tons (literally) of electronic intelligence and ECM gear. I’m sure this sortie gave us an update on China’s electronic tactical capabilities.


44 posted on 11/26/2013 10:34:07 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: Nachum
The B-52 is an extraordinary aircraft.

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45 posted on 11/26/2013 10:35:39 AM PST by Zeneta
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To: blam

Thailand?


46 posted on 11/26/2013 10:36:58 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: blam

Of the Nimitz carriers, only seven are currently available. Three are in maintenance with the Lincoln in the middle of its 4-year RCOH rebuild.


47 posted on 11/26/2013 10:37:24 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: DoughtyOne

I think protectionists should offer to pay higher taxes for those who cannot afford them. It’s working for Obamacare.


48 posted on 11/26/2013 10:40:18 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Nachum; All


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49 posted on 11/26/2013 10:41:17 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Nachum
Good thing we are cutting the hell out out of our strategic forces via the Sequester.
50 posted on 11/26/2013 10:43:24 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: GeronL

The story says “-—without notifying Beijing”-—that would be “not”.


51 posted on 11/26/2013 10:44:24 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: pabianice

EB-52 is a fictional aircraft invented by my friend Dale Brown.


52 posted on 11/26/2013 10:47:46 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: aegiscg47

One could wish they didn’t like the chinee money that is funding their “no budget” admin through the Fed. The Fed selling T bills to chinee, etc. The Clintons... not so much since it was Riady et al and John Huang and many other examples of chinee techno spying and influence which paid their political fee.

I’d say someone listened to someone in the Pentagon for a “pee on my foot” move with prior intel they would not be challenged. Someone who gets the need to “keep face” by the chinee. Japan going at the Chinese is a good thing— old animosities keep them occupied. Counting on the chinee to keep N. Korea in check? No helped by this much.


53 posted on 11/26/2013 10:48:26 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Zeneta

Last picture is before they were converted from coal powered.


54 posted on 11/26/2013 10:50:20 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$
No, it's real.
55 posted on 11/26/2013 10:52:23 AM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: esoxmagnum

Yes. Diversionary tactic ... But there is more. Obama is trying to counter his dropping poll numbers. He thinks if he appears to doing something - anything - it might help. It’s about his poll numbers which are now lower than G W Bush’s.


56 posted on 11/26/2013 10:53:22 AM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

I wholly concur.

Dems always love to start aggressive actions to counter their poll numbers. Clinton and Kosovo anyone?


57 posted on 11/26/2013 10:55:50 AM PST by esoxmagnum (Turtles don't win fights, they just turtle up. Victory belongs to the aggressor, not the turtle.)
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To: cherokee1

:p

Stil, Japan should be in on these things, although that might have been a pretext for China to try something


58 posted on 11/26/2013 10:56:07 AM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: TexasCajun

Need to get the envirowacko’s over there to stop drilling in their waters like they do here.


59 posted on 11/26/2013 10:57:44 AM PST by edcoil (System now set up not to allow some to win but for no one to lose!)
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To: BarnacleCenturion

How?
Japan is dying off of old age. They don’t have the men to defend themselves against China.


60 posted on 11/26/2013 11:00:14 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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