Posted on 01/15/2014 3:42:39 PM PST by James C. Bennett
[ Free Trade™ paying dividends again. All hail gloBULLism, all hail the New World Oder. ]
I used to believe in Free trade then I woke up and realized that free trade only work between countries like the USA and Canada where Cultural, Economic, Moral and other values are damn near the same, it does not work if any one of these is out of whack and this is why Tariffs are essential, and if you are have Tariffs the domestic population should not be taxed on their income.
Grace, 100 years ago Progressives started the income tax and lowered tariffs to almost zero. We are now just seeing the beginning of the end game. Butthead Nixon really go the ball rolling with Free trade didn't he?
“What it DOES bring to the party is perhaps the ability to maneuver on its way to the target, to evade anti-missile defenses.”
I’ll bet an advanced Brilliant Pebbles system could handle it. It’s been said that Brilliant Pebbles would’ve completely destroyed Saddam’s Salvo Scud missile attacks during the Gulf War. Unfortunately Slick Willy scrapped the program and it was never re-started.
Unlike back then, we no longer have the kind of industrial base to support a major war effort.
They wouldn’t be there without the technology upgrades so thoughtfully provided to them by B.J. Clinton.
He won't even have to do that. Our missile defenses will first be unmanned, just like the rest of the military, and then dismantled and the pieces sold to China.
A-freaking-men!
2nd, this, "We encourage greater transparency regarding their defense investments and objectives to avoid miscalculation., harkens to a time when there was a little falsehood called 'the missile gap'.
I'm less concerned about a little MAD (Chinese retaining their retaliatory capabilities, Russians, too, if this is the world we still live in despite Dear Leader's bowing & 'reset' overtures...potatoes, too)...
...and more concerned about us being led into another round of scaremongering due to unofficial leaks of 'observed' military tests in China. Far too convenient, if you ask me.
There was a time, of course, when it could be said that the US was destabilizing the world before the US public was aware that our military was testing 'first-strike'-capable breakthrough-technology (stealth).
.02 (continued): The Russians have much more to fear from the Chinese...
If the Chinese really want to nuke us, they can use shipping containers as the delivery system. The devices just need to be timed right. They don’t need missiles at all; they have our ports, rails, and interstates.
Thank you WALMART shoppers !
“...zooms back into the atmosphere at more than ten times the speed of sound—around mach 10 or 7,680 miles per hour. That’s fast enough to enter American airspace before we even react.”
“And while details of the HGV are very slim at this point, analysts believe it works much like the HGV’s developed by other nations including the US, India and Russia. “
So, in other words, our air defense systems were already inadequate to defend us from the Russian version of this delivery system (which they might decide to sell to anybody). Sounds like we should be working on an upgrade, whether or not the Chinese are developing this.
It doesn’t have to. It just has to be faster than the Laser Targeting System.
The sides of our new-fangled Navy ships are not flat for no reason.
Thanks James C. Bennett.
Writer needs to google the definition of "non-plussed". He might as well look up "enervated" while he's at it because he probably gets that one wrong too.
Think about it. If any ICBM is launched more than 200 miles inland, there is no laser in the world than reach it from offshore. Lasers on ships and tactical lasers to target incoming shells have to deal with very short ranges.
BTW, Post #31 was my reply to YOU!
Chinese hypersonic missle brought to you by chinese engineers who got their education in American universities, subsidized by american dollars.
Yes because we give it to them in exchange for cash. We also give them the best education we can, in our best universities.
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