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The scary thing is that we've over-extended our armed forces. The back-door draft of the national guard and the reserves has left us without the proper forces to deal with national disasters, like hurricanes and earthquakes.
As much as that sucks, we are terribly vulnerable, both militarily and economically. If China attacks Taiwan, what will we fight the Chinese with? Taiwan would be overrun and we would be helpless. If we did mount a half-hearted defense, we would get our asses handed to us and the Chinese would call in their markers and crash the dollar. All that could happen in the space of a few days.
The war was folly of the worst kind and we will be lucky to extricate ourselves without paying a very stiff price.
The ironic thing is that this is all happening under the banner of conservatism. There is nothing conservative about this Wild West diplomacy, nothing at all.
-Michael
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