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November 23, 2005
Chinese Takeout
Insight magazine delivers the lurid, morbid report that the "overwhelming assessment by Asian officials, diplomats and analysts is that the U.S. military simply cannot defeat China. It has been an assessment relayed to U.S. government officials over the past few months by countries such as Australia, Japan and South Korea." We are treated to the knowledge, imparted by Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, of a built-in killswitch to America's success in any war against the Chinese, its "civic society that must adhere to the value of respecting lives."
Well, maybe, but this is also a man who announced in the same breath that, of all the U.S. armed forces, only the Marines are not "extremely incompetent" -- a silly statement when judged, at least, by his parallel concern that human wave-style attacks carried out by millions of Red soldiers are not only unstoppable but presumably, therefore, evidence as well of an immanent military competence. More...
Posted by James G. Poulos at November 23, 2005 01:40 PM
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