Cain on Foreign Policy

[BSB]

Yeah, I'm interested in the different costs of a home around the country.

[sirs]

A website called Zillow, albeit not extrememly accurate in purchasing a home, can give a fairly nice sized ballpark of homesites, and their costs

[Xavier_Onassis]

How an aircraft carrier is POWERED does not threaten the US. The source of locomotion of the carrier is really unimportant, since any sort of carrier can cross the bloody ocean, and they can all be sunk with aircraft or even drones.

Cain is incompetent about foreign affairs. And his Ooze oozey becki beki stan stan comment shows that he is uninterested in becoming informed.

Butter him up, he's toast.

[sirs]

For someone not to grasp the importance of how naval vessels are powered, is the height of ignorance     

[Xavier_Onassis]

A nuclear sub has a clear advantage over an oil powered one, as it can sail around undetected for months. With satellites, a nuclear carrier has no serious advantage. It's not like they can hide all day underwater and only surface at night.

The US could easily spot any carrier coming close to our coasts, or anywhere. An attack like Pearl Harbor is impossible now because of the satellites.

Cain shows little knowledge of foreign affairs, and no interest in informing himself. He is not going to make it.

[sirs]

Detection isn't the issue, and never has been in regards to how naval ships are powered.  Care to try again?

[Xavier_Onassis]

Where do you get t5his nonsense?

Detection is what counts, since a ship must move slowly, and all ships can be sunk with aircraft.

In events between major powers, navies and ships are obsolete as weapons of war. They are still useful ate threatening puny countries like Syria or Oman or Somalia and for humanitarian disasters. But the time of major naval battles over.

Tell us how China having a nuclear carrier makes it a greater threat than China having a recommissioned old Soviet oil-fueled carrier.
 

[sirs]

Now you're really demonstrating ignorance.  Ships can't be "hidden", like subs can.  So, the nuclear power to a sub a far different matter, to that of a naval vessel, especially the size of an Aircraft Carrier.  Now, the Navy is working on some version of "stealth ships", but how they are powered remains a non-issue

Here's a hint as to the issue.......can you guess how many tons of fuel a typical non-nuclear powered Aircraft carrier requires??  Can you guess how much space on an otherwise already cramped ship, it would take up??

If you can figure that out, compared to the same space requirements in powering a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, you'll start to grasp the importance of nuclear power to naval ships, especially carriers

[Xavier_Onassis]

I grasp that an aircraft carrier has to carry aircraft, and serve as an airstrip as well. I do not think that tiny aircraft carriers are actually possible, unless the Chinese are willing to use midget airplanes with midget and dwarf pilots.

With 1.3 billion people, China probably has the largest supply of midgets and dwarves in the world. Midget carriers are always a possibility. And who knows? they could be breeding flying monkeys as well.

[sirs]

What the hell are you talking about?...midgit planes?...dwarves??  Get back to us, when you're ready to re-enter an adult conversation, and the issue of nuclear powered aircraft carriers, and why that's a HUGE asset to one, vs a non-nuclear powered one

[BSB]

XO >> Cain shows little knowledge of foreign affairs, and no interest in informing himself. He is not going to make it."

Correct, and I'll go a step further. He appears to be proud of that fact that has no knowledge of foreign affairs. He sees it as a selling point. What's up with that?


BSB

[sirs]

To coin a phrase, "It's the economy, stupid".  Plus, that's also why you have advisors.  His economic & business selling point is what's been so effective at making him a top tier candidate, and now why folks are trying to drag him down with these unsubstantiated sexual uncomfortability accusations.  Present company included

So, taking the unsubstantiated rumors out of the equation again, why do you hate him so much, B?

[BSB]

I don't hate him at all. In fact as I said in another thread, he is very likeable.

BSB

[sirs]

So, perhaps we can dispense with the all-to-frequent non-substantiated pervert remarks, for this likable man.  At least until we actually have some basis to the accusation

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is NOT a huge asset. It is like comparing cavalry riding Indian ponies with cavalries riding Arabian horses.

Carriers are obsolete, because naval flotillas are by there very nature, (visible to satellites) and (2) sinkable by aircraft.

A second Pearl Harbor will never happen, so long as there are satellites.

You have yet to say why one Chinese nuclear carrier is a greater threat than an ordinary Chinese carrier.