[Tai_Chung]

If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?

[DB]

No.

I think that is the stupidest thing China could possibly do.

Our response would horrific.

[Straight Vermonter]

If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?

Our former president would have tucked his tail at this point.

If China is really serious about taking out the carrier they won't use the weapons mentioned they will simply nuke it.

[centurion]

Anyone have info on the "surprise runs that the Russians carried out against the carrer Kitty Hawk in Oct/Nov. Please post.

[Travis McGee]

A successful PLA(N) sneak attack on an American carrier would be a blunder of the first order similar to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Instead of driving us from the region, it would make the American defense of Taiwan a top priority. Having lost one carrier, the USA would devote far more to defending Taiwan.

Big mistake by China if they do this, this means they are miscalculating American will, the same way the Japanese did in 1941.

[Don Joe]

"If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?"

Yes, but not before taking care of business.

"Taking care of business," however, should not take more than ten or fifteen minutes.

[varon]

If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?

YES!

[reg45]

If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?

Only if it happened during a Democratic administration.

[Jhoffa_]

If China sinks an American aircraft carrier during an invasion of Taiwan, do you think the United States would just go home?

No, imo at that point they couldn't go home. It would be political suicide to do so.

I think an act like that would commit us above all else.

[Libertarian_4_eva]

This strategy follows from the bias--a potentially dangerous one for China--that America's aversion to military casualties equates to its unwillingness to risk a real war over the fate of Taiwan. This is apparently a widely held view

This is also the correct view. While the U.K. and Canada go hunting the taliban our men just sit around on their butts. Our armed forces are still dealing with what has been called the vietnam syndrome. In almost every single combat theather around the world when american service men start to die we start to pullout.

[M Kehoe]

The Japanese made the same miscalculation that general Bin just made. You would think the Chicoms would have learned from history.

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