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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay: [QB] Man, you stay off line for a couple of days and look what happens. The hawks want to go a mano y mano with China and finish what MacArthur 'should have started' back in the 50's. Damn Truman! Diplomacy be damned. Well, diplomacy needs time to work, and even more time to work when dealing with the Chinese. Please consider this, there is a deal beng conisdered to send a crapload of high-tech military equipment to Taiwan. THE issue in China is Taiwan and the last thing that mainland China wants to see is Taiwan getting top-flight military stuff. So, if you put yourself in China's shoes...something that no one seems willing to do...they obviously see this incident as an opportunity. They have something to bargin with to prevent the military transaction. Has anyone at all considered that? Does that make their position right? Not in the least bit. The American plane was within our definition of international air...collecting information...although I wonder how we'uns would feel with Chinese information gathering planes flying down the west coast on a regular basis. Indications are that the Chinese piolt flew too close to the American plane as it make a turn...8 to 10 feet was the Department of Defense analysis as I recall...far too close. The American position needs to be foremost about the saftey of the military personnel. However, the government can't make international decisions based on the morale of the military...they knew the job was dangerous when they took it. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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