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Saturday, September 10, 2011

Well, I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears.

The US should bolster its relationship with Taiwan and sell Taipei the 66 F-16C/D aircraft it has requested, a major new academic study concludes.

“However frightening or seductive China is, appeasing it by sacrificing Taiwan would not be good policy,” said Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, a professor at Georgetown University, and Bonnie Glaser, a senior fellow and China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Well blow me down & calls me shorty!!
An academia study that makes sense from the common man conservative's point of view.
When do you think THAT will happen again?

B Woodman
III-per; September 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM
Anonymous said...: If it's left up to the current PTB, Israel and Taiwan are toast.; September 10, 2011 at 8:28 AM
TPaine said...: “A decision to jettison Taiwan, or even cut back significantly on US support, would prove to an increasingly confident China that Washington has become weak, vacillating and unreliable,” they said.

"Has become...?" More like "has been for years." What do you think would happen if we went ahead with the deal? China will say "STOP!" and Obama will say "no problem." We're the United States of Red China".; September 10, 2011 at 11:11 AM
Bluesgal said...: I've come to think that Owe's answers to the UN only and not hte american people. So very disgusted.; September 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Paul X said...: So... we should go to war, including possibly nuclear war, over Taiwan? Seriously?

Well, look at the bright side. That would certainly end the empire. Maybe at the cost of some millions dead, but what the Hell, chest-thumping is important.

It's Taiwan's job to look out for Taiwan, not our job. But I guess government-lovers see things differently.; September 11, 2011 at 12:21 AM
Anonymous said...: "So... we should go to war, including possibly nuclear war, over Taiwan? Seriously?"

No!

No!

No!

If we tell the Chicoms that they cannot have Taiwan at any price, and make them believe that we mean it, the war will not occur. The Chinese are not stupid. We have been in this posture vis a vis China and Taiwan since 1949. China wants Taiwan but not at any price. Make it clear to them that it will cost more than they are willing to pay and they will keep their hands in their pockets as they have done for over 60 years. What part of that do you and our Apologist In Chief not understand?; September 11, 2011 at 10:43 AM
Anonymous said...: I am no a supporter for foreign aid. If Taiwan wants to buy planes than sell them. China does things we don't like all the time but that doesn't stop them for going ahead and doing it.
I am truly concerned about the small arms imported components. That is another screw up of government policy just like the things that allowed 9-11 to happen.; September 11, 2011 at 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: Paul X said...
So... we should go to war, including possibly nuclear war, over Taiwan? Seriously?

The same choices faced the world as Hitler began annexing countries. For a while, war was avoided. A very short while.

Every era has it's challenges. Don't worry, I'm sure history will judge us fairly no matter what we do. Right?

I believe we should not enter into alliances lightly, but when we do, we should not abandon our allies lightly either.

The exact same question comes up in our "III" scenarios. Do you have someone elses back? Does someone have yours?

III; September 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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