http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3540

The Chinese are responsible for more provocative incidents with the US navy, yet barely a peep about these incidents. How are fiberglass speedboats a greater threat that Chinese subs and denial of access to ports?
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/3540

According to senior Nato officials, the incident caused a sense of sudden fear in the U.S. Navy, as officials realized the seriousness of the encounter. The U.S. apparently had no idea just how sophisticated China's fast-growing submarine fleet had become, or that they even posed such a threat.

Reportedly, one Nato figure said that the effect was “as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik”. The Sputnik, if you remember, was the Soviet Union's first orbiting satellite launched in 1957 which marked the beginning of the space age and kicked off the space race.

http://www.efluxmedia.com/ news_U…rbor_11103.html

Senior U.S. military officers criticized China on Tuesday for blocking a Kitty Hawk U.S. Navy aircraft carrier group and two smaller ships access to the Hong Kong port over the American Thanksgiving holiday last week.

The USS Kityhawk was involved in both incidents, and Chinese subs with torpedoes and missiles capable of sinking carriers are “white boxes”. Also during the Coldwar US and Russian subs played cat and mouse on a regular basis, Reagan would get on the phone and ask WTF. Dialog in the press serves nothing, maybe a US-Iranian hotline is the answer. What happened to the USSR?

It's so much easier — and so much lazier — to ignore my original thoughts, which are reprised above. I don't deny that the incident occurred. What I cannot deny is that my government has lied to me with such regularity that my initial reaction was disbelief.

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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpHJ5FXAcdC…

Anyone who has spent time bridge watchkeeping at sea east of the Suez Canal will be aware of what's known as the “Filipino Monkey” phenomenon.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/11/us_iran…

This Moderate Voice Kumbayah chorus member wishes Bush would just stop the saber rattling good-faithedly diplomatize with our Persian partner for peace. 

http://www.julescrittenden.com/2008/01/11/new-p…

I suspect the guy on the microphone was actually taunting the Iranians and trying to bully them into attacking and the Iranians showed courage under duress, kept their cools and refrained from creating an incident.

What this chillingly reminds me of is the cold war theatrics of SAC who would run drills by encroaching on the USSR airspace to see what the reaction would be. Then days later the USSR would run drills encroaching American Airspace to see what our reaction would be.

This was carefully planned and orchestrated. It was a cold war taunt and the United States is at fault in the eyes of the progressives for NOT surrendering and announcing on television that America is EVIL.