Hmmm... So a commercial airliner traveling at about 500 mph is going to get close enough to a missile moving at about 7,600 miles an hour? Even if airborne you must account for the curvature of the Earth.

No, the missile could not outrun light, but you also have to track the missile and engage it. That means tracking and locking onto something moving at hypersonic speed.

America's biggest enemy is not on the other side of the Globe; it's in the White House. Our own enemy has done more damage to this country than any external enemy could ever have hoped for.

yup!

Yeah, but if we loan them the money to do that with, then ????

Yes!!

I just hate the title, leader. I thought we elected them to be in charge of the execution of the laws passed by Congress. I think that may be part of the problem. We let them think they are leaders.

Aah, Fly fishing and gardening. What else could a man ask for.

I'll keep a garden plot open for you. there's fishing....;)

Very true.

If Hillary wins, well I'm an old man - but I'll be moving.

Actually a "Cold War" with China might be a good thing economically speaking. Maybe then we would stop buying so many of their products and bring manufacturing back home where it belongs.

"peaceful rise" It is obvious that China is preparing their military for war. "Peaceful" is in the eyes of the beholder.

I know it isn't very objectivist, but we need to take this very seriously as the military is one of the few federal powers enumerated in the Constitution. We broke the USSR with the cold war arms race, will we just cede the high ground to China by not even trying?

I wish we could deport all the rotters to China.

The US went into both WWI and WWII underprepared, using obsolete equipment and strategy, and with a military commanded by peacetime politically-correct generals. I do not expect it to be different in the future. Fortunately re WWII, when the Japanese kicked us in the cojones we got off our duffs and responded vigorously. I expect that some act of aggression will have to take place against the US - probably in our heartland since world distance is now small - before we take modern strategic military tools seriously (though the wars in the ME have kept our tactics in pretty good shape).

Jan

“I absolutely believe China’s peaceful rise is good for the world, and it’s good for America.” - Obama

I do not look for this to be taken seriously by this administration. They are very willing to sell out any "high ground" we may have both militarily and in the field of human rights in exchange for what they perceive as good economic results.

Something we used to be good at... Now, under Øbama, not so much I think. If Hillary wins in a couple of years it won't help us much.

I'm personally not as fearful of what the Chinese might initiate as I am terrified of what our politicians can get us into.

At this date we're only looking at another Cold War, nothing to sniff at, but also something we're very good at.

True enough. As long as we don't alienate any more allies under the fool posing as our leader, that is a workable situation. If it comes to that.

You could NEVER be accused of such. You are a true original. :-)

Maybe I'm a copy cat. Sorry. lol And yes it does.

(I used the words bitch-slap yesterday! They fit the situation so well)..

And that really is the heart if it. We need to assert our indepence from such overgrown, entangled dependence.

"Oh..THAT will never happen." Don't you want to bitch slap people when that comes out of their mouths? CLUE-LESS! Ignorant wussies with an entitled attitude and a false sense of security. As if evil doesn't exit any more and they're untouchable. S-MACK!