Look, there seems to be a little rampant arrogance running around in this thread and I just want to set a few things straight.
1. If a war is fought between the US and China, you can be assured that the US will act within the UN\'s best interest and obtain the most assistance from other UN affiliated countries. UN = power.
2. China is NOT dumb enough to provoke the UN in any way. The US pulls a lot of weight with that organization and you can be assured that with the UN\'s help, China would essentially be fighting many countries rather then just the US.
3. People saying that the war will not be fought with nuclear weapons are correct. That is to say, it won\'t start out that way. Think of it this way, suppose for a second the US is about to be overrun finally by Chinese troops and planes and they begin bombing our cities. Our military is smashed, 90% of our defenses are wiped out and our cities are crumbling... what\'s the best way to assure that you won\'t lose the war? Make sure the other side isn\'t alive to enjoy their close victory. Birds fly and pass in the air and the two largest nations on Earth are reduced to smoldering rubble. The "nuetral countries" would be forced to face nuclear winter. I\'m glad I live within just 10 miles of a primary target. I will be spared the horror of survival.
4. World powers do not fight over islands. If they did, then we wouldn\'t have been able to purchase Alaska from Russia. I\'m not saying China can buy Taiwan, but I am saying that the matter will die down. For those of you thinking of Vietnam, think again. The US was the only world power involved there.
5. For those of you blaming President Bush for our nation\'s troubles, even those who think it\'s safe to criticize thanks to the fact that they are not goverened by him (you know who you are), it is not entirely his fault. The president has policies, but he has a whole entire cabinet of advisors telling him what\'s good and what\'s bad. Those people will not allow him to do something incredibally stupid enough as to threaten a massive global war between nations which could eliminate all life on Earth. Critisize all you want, but until you sit in that big chair in the oval office, you sure can\'t understand what it is he is trying to do. Walk 10 miles in another man\'s shoes or something...
As for the rest, in my personal opinion, war would result in no gain at all. Germany wanted to rule the world, as did Japan, but what motivation does China or the US have when it comes to a massive scale movement such as those imagined above? Nothing. American\'s have always thought, just as was apparent in the pre-bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the anti-war movements in the 70\'s, that war is unacceptable until it directly affects us as a nation. If Pearl Harbor would have never happened, the US would have never sent troops to Europe in the first place or bomb Japan in the "Dolittie Strike." Obviously, the US didn\'t give a flying sh*t about Vietnam, which is why so many people marched in so many cities claiming war was wrong. What happened when US troops returned from fighting in Vietnam? They were spit on and yelled at. The people love victories for a cause that suits the best interest of the world, but hate losses when it concerns small backwater countries that interest no one accept the invaders.
War will not happen and our world will do fine until we are destroyed through some means of massive natural disasters brought on by ourselves anyways. War is not something we should fear, we should fear self destruction through loss of natural resources. Cars need gas and homes need gas, but without gas, you have no heat and you have no cars. Without either, we\'re a species just waiting to die.
