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July 14, 2005
I'm Waiting For The Protest Marches In Europe
The US is prepared to use nuclear weapons against China if it is attacked by Beijing during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Pentagon general said on Thursday.“If the Chinese draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on Taiwan's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” said General Townsend.
Man, Europe is going to go bat-shit, and rightly so. This is completely unacceptable rhetoric from such a senior official, or even a junior one, for god's sake.
Oh wait, I got the quotation wrong:
China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, a Chinese general said on Thursday.“If the Americans draw their missiles and position-guided ammunition on to the target zone on China's territory, I think we will have to respond with nuclear weapons,” said General Zhu Chenghu.
I'm sure the French will continue to hold joint invasion practices with them; after all, it's really Chimpy McBushhitler who is the warmonger.
Posted by Mr. Bingley at July 14, 2005 08:38 PM
Comments
Like anyone's going to sweat something someone says whose name sounds like General 'Shoe Shine'.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at July 14, 2005 09:40 PM
Oh man. I do not get how people do not see China as a threat. They are building their army to one day attack the U.S. It is plain to see.
I am afraid that one day we will be in a war with China and the Left will be sitting around scratching their heads wondering how it all started. After all, we gave them everything they wanted. They needed us as a trade partner.
I have written about his quite extensively here, here and here
Posted by: WunderKraut at July 14, 2005 10:03 PM
Nukes in response to precision guided munitions? This means that this technology is effective enough to scare the crap out of the Chinese, something that is hard to do.
I think we need more of them.....
Posted by: The Real JeffS at July 15, 2005 01:35 AM
Indeed, WunderKraut. Muslim terrorism is what it is and is a real danger, but what is really going to define the 21st century is how China continues to emerge as a global power and how the rest of the world (but especially the US, Japan and India) responds to it. It's very worrisome, to say the least.
Posted by: Dave J at July 15, 2005 10:42 AM
That is the thing that scares me, Dave, we keep talking about canceling all of these "Cold war era" weapons programs because they aren't affective against terrorists.
I get so upset when I hear someone in congress talking about cancelling the F/A 22. Yeah the thing is ridiculously expensive. But nobody else in the world will be able to touch it for like 20 years.
Posted by: Curtis at July 15, 2005 12:02 PM
Seems to me people have also been claiming we don't need the SDI because the Cold War is over...
Posted by: Ken Summers at July 15, 2005 03:39 PM
"China is a sleeping giant; when she awakens, she will shake the world."
--Napoleon
Posted by: Dave J at July 15, 2005 10:34 PM
Sure, let's give China the Unocal rights.
Posted by: Nightfly at July 19, 2005 10:22 AM