Or we can switch to nuclear power. Or stop embargoing Iran and work with them. Or all of these.
No we don't. Fuck Israel. If they need our help so bad they don't deserve to be a country.
With the exception of WW2, none of those were wars that started AGAINST us. Korea and Vietnam were started BY us, more or less. And as someone with actual military experience, I can tell you it'd take a miracle to actually 'weaken' us militarily.
China is about 50 years away from a competitive navy, if we do nothing in the mean time.
LOL. No. They don't. I would know, since I've counted a fuck ton of that ammo in my military career. But even if all that is true, and China DID want to make war with us, and magically got that capability, here is a mighty big weakness; Three Gorges Dam. Google it. It's only a cruise missile strike away and all of a sudden you have to feed 1.3 billion people entirely from foreign food supplies, engaged in a war that has no determinable gain, against the strongest (by a metric fuck ton at that) military power in the world, who would also be one of the largest grain suppliers. Good luck with that China, you're gonna need it.
Here is a direct quote that I agree with: "The North Vietnamese always knew that the U.S. could have ended the war within weeks to months by bombing Hanoi rail and road logistical movement points, closing the Haiphong harbor by mining, and destroying the dykes and flooding the country, if Johnson had ever acquired the moral courage to stop the senseless slaughter of American GI’s in South Vietnam jungles. The World War II combat veterans who were the U.S. military leadership during the Vietnam War understood that unless the center of gravity source of the war is attacked and destroyed, the war would end only when and if the enemy is disposed to cease combat. Unfortunately President Johnson, along with his Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, ignored and suppressed the advice and concerns of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in order to continue to pursue their suicidal, but politically expedient, ‘limited war,’ game theory, counterinsurgency strategy."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2935892/posts
The Chinese Army came charging over the hills in Korea and literarily ran our soldiers out of machine gun ammo, using their own Chinese troops as targets. The Japanese used Banzai charges in WW2, The Chinese population is almost 10 times the population of Japan, and they have that same Banzai mentality, except that they think that they have too many people anyway, that is why they try to control the birth rate now. I go into Walmart and Target and look at different product's Countries of origin, mostly China and pretty well made. Like Japan, China tries to get hold of our technology by buying something over here and shipping it to China, they then take it apart and copy it just like Japan did. The best camera in the World was the German Leica, until Japan copied and actually improved it, here are the facts; "After World War II the Japanese Optical Industry was encouraged to convert to peace time products. Since Germany was on the losing side in the war, all copyrights held by Leitz (and Zeiss) were considered null and void by the allies. And so, the Japanese Camera industry as we know it was born. Most Japanese camera manufacturers got their start or were revitalized after the war by manufacturing Leica (or Contax) copies. There were over 300 different Leica copies manufactured in the 1934 - 1960 time period. Russia, China, Japan, Italy, Czechoslovakia, even the USA made Leica copies. Some of the Leica copies are of excellent quality, some are not. All are collectible."
http://www.leitzmuseum.org/CameraMakes/LeicaCopies/Copies.html
My point is that the Chinese will take something like that High Tech helicopter left at the Bin Laden House in Pakistan and copy it, so their technology will be good enough to start a War in about 10 years in my humble opinion. We average about one War every twenty years or so, history proves that..Spanish American 1898, WW1 1918, WW2 1941, Korea 1950, Vietnam 1965, Conflicts in Grenada, Beirut, Libya, Panama !980's, Persion Gulf War 1990, Yugoslavia 1990's, Iraqi War 2003, Add 10 years and we have 2013, add 10 more years and 2023 comes to mind as about the time for another War, with China being my guess. There is no doubt that we will help Israel if it is attacked, but first Israel will need to use all their troops first before we should get involved. This BS about the Arabs getting mad if the Israels got involved in the Iraqi War has got to stop, Israel will have to fight their own battles up to a point before "big brother" intervenes, or sit down with the Palestinians and help to create a Palistinian State, which I am all for. I am for pulling everyone out of the Middle East now and Drill Baby Drill, and use Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Natural Gas, etc etc. I hope that Mitt Romney runs again in 2016, this time with Rubio for the LEGAL Latino votes, and he will win just like Nixon won the second time around. Actually JFK, and Reagan both were not at first successful trying to run for President.
