We should really forget that patronizing and bumptious attitude about somebody “not allowed” to have something because of events 60+ years ago. If you don’t want somebody to have something, go there and take it away or destroy it.

Japan has every right – derived from the devine right of doing what is neccessary to further your interests, regardless of what others, that might not have your best interest in mind, say – to build nuclear weapons and delivery systems. Japanese are a strong and able people, are one of the most coherent societies and their rise is the Far East is very well in the West’s interest to counterbalance China. And I can understand that China will cry foul if Japan gets more ambitious, but that’s only defending your biotop when a new bully shows up.

And as I said, it is absurde to argue based on things 60+ years past. That is only possible because of electronic archives. Or do you think that too many people in 1875 cared or knew in propaganda-detail, like people today think they do thanks to History Channel etc, what Napoleon did 60 years ago then?

If Japan’s enemies are strong enough to hamstring those natural develpments Japan will surely experience in a couple of years, after the last of the WW2 generation will have died and the Japanese society will follow a more natural path, they will do it with actions. But don’t talk about paper as if it were the real thing. Can’t change things anyway, the U.S. getting weaker, new players arise. New game, new chance I say.

So Iraq,Iran,Libya also have the right to develope nuclear weapons as well???
When did iraq invade Kuwait?? Some 15 years ago and 15 year of peace!

Then why is US in iraq right now???

Why do we have the WW2 agreements… I know these things are historical Ie some 60 odd years ago but the agreements are still there and there is a time limit on these things before they expires!

It is in the Japanese constitution and in the ww2 agreements that japan would not develope nuclear or offensive weapons. So no they have no right to build one. A long range missile, nuclear or not is very much a offensive weapon!

i seriously doubt it’s effectiveness over china…????

mind you china is huge country and the laser has only limited range.
and placing it on a geostationary orbit satellite over china won’t get much support with beijing, and logically that coulden’t be very cost effective since the sat would be huge, not to mention launch cost. Production would be extremely expensive.

new yuan???

the second vessel??? it seem the PLAN likes to build things in pairs…

i was wondering why we already have pic of the yuan floating about but none of the the 093 and the 094 ???

Is the PLAN intentionally leaking info of the yuan and consider the SSNs more confedential????

I am really interested in a lot of these ships.

Also, whats the difference between a Frigate, Destroyer, Cruiser, Corvette, and whatever, what are their definitions?

Size and the amount of armament on board is the difference.

from large to small

Cruiser, Destroyer, frigate , Corvette

No , Iraq was invaded (in part) because he wouldn’t let the UN inspect.
Why?
1. He’s nuts.
2. He didn’t want Iran to know he was bluffing on WMD.

At least the UN sanctions are now off Iraq. If they were as bad as Iraqi wnated us to believe they were, than their lifting…as a direct result of the invasion is a good thing.

Oh so killing people is a good thing? Tearing a organized government apart and introducing caos to society not to mention a possible civil war is a good thing???

man people are nieve… Even if you think Saddam gone from iraq is a good thing it is not for you to decide, nor is it for the Americans to decide. It is only for the iraqi people to decide. If the iraqi are really unhappy with their ruler then there would have been uprisings and the eventual collapse of the regime… Remeber the russian czars, or communism?

How many innocent people are killed due to US intervention? would they have died if americans stayed where they are wanted??? Is collateral damage what you call killing civilians?

don’t give me the crap about Saddam killing more people, because if saddam is so unwelcomed there would have been much more support for the Americans than there is now! This only means the iraqi people feels more secure in the hand of Saddam than in the hands of Americans.

And what ever came of the WMD??? Did anyone find anything that remotely resembles a nuclear weapon??? No ! and a bunch of BS about intelligence failure, just like the bombing of the Chinese embasy in Yugoslavia with 3 tomahowks.