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To: Bruce Denney who wrote (54031)	6/10/2000 7:49:00 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 116816

Bruce, re:re: Would the US public support a China v Taiwan/USA war ? <<IMO, when it happens (not if)...>> I agree. <...public will not have the time to worry about the consequences.>> This is the part I'm most concerned about. Not so much about the public's views at this point in any developments, but that the public will be left out of the decision making process leading up to crisis time. <<US gov. ...be fully aware of any movement against Taiwan. ...eyes in the sky>> Meaning confirmation thru visual and intelligents gathering, I agree. But to me that is not where the meaningful stuff is taking place. My concern is the "back room" behind closed doors that includes agendas on both sides, and ways that they will bo accomplished. Simple examples under suspiction, as follows. (1) USA entered WW II after Pearl Harbor attack. Here lots of speculation US government personel let this attack go to completion, which in itself was criminal, but add the fact that they decided to get the biggest "bang for the buck", rather than sound the alarm 10 minutes before actual contact the US government personal decided to let the maximum death and destruction occur so that the nation's outrage would be at a maxinum and smother anti war sounds. For myself I look at the USA joining the fight in WWII as a correct and desirable action, but I strongly do not look at the above speculative way as healthy or moral. (2) Vietnam That story that we entered because our armed forces were attacked by the north, and the later identification that the US placed that boat on purpose in harm's ways so that the firing upon was for sure. To me sick, as was the war which I spent 13 months Dec 67 - Jan 69 there under orders to kill the enemy in government sanctioned murder. Quick off topic question, why does it always invoke great patriotic feeling in folks when I mentioned that while I and others were being pinned down that a "right stuff" jet fighter pilot came in low and dropped napalm on the enemy, but then retell the story and exchange as equals the napalm with what it is made from, liquid gasoline, and rather than a right stuff jet pilot it was a couple foot soldiers that obtained the high ground on this small but steep mountained that seemed to dot the landscape like tall mushrooms in that beautiful countryside in northern Vietname north of Quan-tree, and they accomplished the identical task the fighter pilot did, except rather than drop napalm from a fighter jet they carried a large container of gasoline used to fuel a small vehicle that carried a recoiless rifle, and simply poured the gasoline down the hill and after it reached the enemy and soaked into their cloths the trailing gasoline line was light. To me it was the same act, gasoline dropped and ignited and sanctioned by the government as not only allowed, but the troops being ordered to do it else go to military prison as a criminal. Sick to the extreme for Vietnam War. (off topic) If you do a reply, add an off topic. ÿ What is ? SuperGlass Windshield Repair Doug