As predicted, the PRC is not interest simply in deterring Taiwan. They dont need ICBMs to bring Taiwan to heel.

So all you anti-NMD people tell me please...who do you think China is going to point those ICBMs at. No, their military build up is not about Taiwan alone.

What the hell do you expect them to do?

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China knows that a nuclear attack against the US will result in their destruction. If China decides to attack us, they will wait until their economy grows enough where they can match our military spending and then they will attack with conventional military forces.

China is in no rush to be the new Superpower. They know their time in coming and they would never launch missles knowing that we would retaliate.

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jp1035 wrote I don't trust any Communist country but would China bomb thier main distribution network aka WallMART ?????????????

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The risk of accidental launch increases if the deploy more ICBMs. Everyone who is saying that China's only concern was boosting their military to handle Taiwan is wrong...they dont need ICBMs to handle Taiwan. ICBMs are only used at global ranges.

In short...we were RIGHT to continue funding NMD.

yup, US was right to research NMD. China is also right to deploy ICBMs, maybe deploy China's NMD in future. To Chinese, they also don't trust US.

SS, how many countries are on your death list now?

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If we, the United States can develop Nuclear weapon, WMD, Long-range missiles... why can other country do the same. With our standard, DO we believe that our country is the only country trust worthy for not using those dangerous weapons against other countries without immediate threats? We scream and cry out loud whenever other countries are developing something that we have already had for defense reason.

To invade Iraq is simply sending a message to the rest of the world that we cannot be trusted. In order to protect your own country you need to start developing weapons that can protect your country from our invasion in the future.

In some cases this is true. Countries with nukes tend not to get invaded.

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Which is correct, since we tend to be hostile to non-democracies.


Because non-democracies have no right to exist. Thats why.



No. I fully support Taiwan and South Korea and Japan's right to develop any weapons they want. They have that right because they are democracies.



To the despots of the world, yes. How many democracies have we invaded recently?



Which is why it makes sense to invade them before they actually get nukes.

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