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2005-05-25 China-Japan-Koreas

Japan deploys Patriot missiles to defend against Nork strike

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-05-25 21:10|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the start of the start- nice job ChiComs - you just lost Asia

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-25 22:01|| 2005-05-25 22:01|| Front Page Top

#2 So it's good enough for the Japanese, but not good enough for the Canadians? I assume the ostrich remains the national bird of Canada.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-25 22:45|| 2005-05-25 22:45|| Front Page Top

#3 TW: not the ostrich; rumors of it hiding its head in the sand are Greatly Exaggerated.

A better candidate for National Bird of Canada is the dodo. The dodo, having lived happily on its little island for millennia, didn't know a predator when it saw one. Rats and pigs raided its nests and the dodo didn't know what they were.

Posted by mom 2005-05-25 22:49|| 2005-05-25 22:49|| Front Page Top

#4 "Always improve your defensive position." Words of infantry wisdom definitely apply here. With such a serious threat, Japan's emphasis should be on layer after layer of defense, culminating in a shoot-down capability on Nork soil, on detection of missile-alert-launch. Their layered defense also must be dense, working off the assumption that the enemy might have just one more weapon then you have anti-weapons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-25 23:05|| 2005-05-25 23:05|| Front Page Top

#5 YES Frank..thoes Chi-coms are inscrutable.

The obvious.. Japan has very strong friend(US). Japan also has it's own world class engineering & technology and a research system that produces evermore of the same.

Japan also has large reprocessing facilities, spent fuel stocks, and reactor grade plutonium.

So given that they have us for a partner, knowhow of their own, and a historical adversarial relationship China...*GO FIGURE*....it's inscrutably stooopid.

Posted by Minni Mullah 2005-05-25 23:17|| 2005-05-25 23:17|| Front Page Top

#6 I certainly take your point about the dodo, mom, whose cluelessness led to its extinction, but the mental image of a Maple Leaf flag with head-buried ostrich athwart was just too, too piquant to pass up. A dodo would be mistaken for an undressed penguin in such a situation. ;-p

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-25 23:45|| 2005-05-25 23:45|| Front Page Top

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