It is JUST the target I would tell the PRC bandits they risk. Non nuclear and the result is flooding. All they have to do to keep us away from it is BEHAVE.
Yeah, and they would politely explain the joys of nuclear weapons back to you.
Would you prefer nuclear weapons? I don't, not when I can bring them to heel so simply and sharply. And what of the innocents they kill now in their colonial imperialism; and the environmental damage they do in AFRICA and Southeast Asia?
Well then if this is the case, stop making suggestions that would almost certainly cause their use. You would have been wiser to suggest blockade. A step that could be tailored from less than lethal to mining their harbors> it could be called off at anytime without effects that last a century either.
Why should the PRC bandits sow the wind and not reap the whirlwind?
As for world opinion, Rwanda massacre,.......Darfur....to hell with that so called "world opinion".
Herald
Spoken like a person who truly doesn't understand how war and politics work. If world opinion didn't matter, then we would not be apologizing for killing innocent Afghans in air strikes. In this case where you are suggesting we kill innocent Chinese, you would put at risk access to the bases you need because the host nations will rebuke you for your slaughter or because they don't want to risk justified Chinese Nuclear retaliation.
People in Africa don't have the global relation ship and economic clout the Chinese do. Thousands of dead Chinese matter more than thousands of dead Africans. Sad, racist, but true.
Again, you don't know the first thing about combined arms operations OIF(You have never been and are too arrogant to listen to those who have), you don't know about UAS(another thing you have ZERO exposure to) and you don't understand Sun Tzu well enough to quote him.
Dubbed Operation Khanjar, or "Strike of the Sword," the military push was described by officials as the largest and fastest-moving of the war's new phase. British forces last week led similar missions to fight and clear out insurgents in Helmand and neighboring Kandahar provinces.
"Where we go we will stay, and where we stay, we will hold, build and work toward transition of all security responsibilities to Afghan forces," Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson said in a statement.
Southern Afghanistan is a Taliban stronghold but also a region where Afghan President Hamid Karzai is seeking votes from fellow Pashtun tribesmen.
The Pentagon is deploying 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in time for the elections and expects the total number of U.S. forces there to reach 68,000 by year's end. That is double the number of troops in Afghanistan in 2008, but still half of much as are now in Iraq.
The Taliban who ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001 and were ousted from power following a U.S.-led invasion, have made a violent comeback, wreaking havoc in much of the country's south and east forcing the United States to pour in the new troops.
Capt. Bill Pelletier, a spokesman for the Marines said the troops involved in the Thursday operation were sent in by a mixture of aircraft and ground transport under the cover of darkness.
The operation is aimed at putting pressure on insurgents, "and to show our commitment to the Afghan people that when we come in we are going to stay long enough to set up their own institutions," Pelletier said.
Reversing the insurgency's momentum has been one of the key components of the new U.S. strategy, and thousands of additional troops allow commanders to push and stay into areas where international and Afghan troops had no permanent presence before.
While Marine troops were the bulk of the force, recently arrived U.S. Army helicopters were also taking part in the operation in Helmand province.
In March, Obama unveiled his strategy for Afghanistan, seeking to defeat al-Qaida terrorists there and in Pakistan with a bigger force and a new commander. Taliban and other extremists, including those allied with al-Qaida, routinely cross the two nations' border in Afghanistan's remote south.
"The security forces will build bases to provide security for the local people so that they can carry out every activity with this favorable background, and take their lives forward in peace," Gov. Gulab Mangal said in a Pentagon news release.
Obama's strategy aims to boost the size of the Afghan army from 80,000 to 134,000 troops by 2011—and greatly increase training by U.S. troops accompanying them—so the Afghan military can defeat Taliban insurgents and take control of the war. The White House also is pushing forces to set clear goals for a war gone awry, to get the American people behind them, to provide more resources and to make a better case for international support.
There is no timetable for withdrawal, and the White House has not estimated how many billions of dollars its plan will cost.
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