tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post1838453079604579051..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Ma Gov't Rep Bullshits the US on Radar =UPDATEDX2=Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-61539580013515097702014-06-09T12:04:54.202+08:002014-06-09T12:04:54.202+08:00Better term - > KMTard
As in: Never go full KM...Better term - > KMTard<br /><br />As in: Never go full KMTard Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-85212654931399703152014-06-09T10:23:11.597+08:002014-06-09T10:23:11.597+08:00"right-wing freak fringe of the KMT"
I ..."right-wing freak fringe of the KMT"<br /><br />I wish you wouldn't use "right" and "left" when speaking of Taiwanese politics as it can be very confusing for an international audience. <br /><br />The use of "right" in America differs greatly from how it appears to be used in Europe. You're an American but appear to using it in a way that has nothing to do with the American usage (a right-wing American with any knowledge of the KMT's pro-China positions would be very opposed to those positions - especially those based on racism).<br /><br />There is one definition of "right-wing" that does seem to fit, though it makes the word even less useful. "right-wing" is "anything the writer doesn't like". You see that usage quite often in American newspapers. This is one of the reasons Fox News has become so popular.<br /><br />So if you want to talk about the KMT without insulting the American right-wing half of your audience who should be your natural ally in promoting freedom and opposing bullying, please try to find a different term to use. <br /><br />Readinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-4889593434478657492014-06-09T00:28:15.840+08:002014-06-09T00:28:15.840+08:00The idea that the 2nd Artillery cannot target vari...The idea that the 2nd Artillery cannot target various locations in Taiwan is demonstrably false. The idea that they can target such locations, but choose not to is naive at best. <br /><br />However, expensive and relatively predictable missiles strike me as much less of a risk than saboteurs armed with simple explosives. Look at those two idiots a few months back who put a bomb on one of the HSR trains. What if they had been professionals who had set explosives to blow up HSR line support pillars at several different points from Taipei to Taichung? There is some security at the major power stations but little to none at transformer stations for the electricity grid. Even less at gas stations. Etc...Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-19429484191013654232014-06-08T08:32:18.668+08:002014-06-08T08:32:18.668+08:00....as if Ma is making sacrifices in supporting th...<i>....as if Ma is making sacrifices in supporting the radar: "See how much the President is suffering?".... </i><br /><br />This is called "good cop, bad cop." The KMT and King Pu-tsung have been playing it with the US very successfully in the past 10 years.<br /><br />In fact, there is a group of main-streamers within the US (some within the banking and news media sectors) that loves it and willingly plays along.<br /><br />I agree with you though that within Taiwan there is no opposition to the radar stations.<br /><br />I for one support it because Taiwan needs to get its act together regarding our own national defense. The massive demilitarization of Taiwan surgically and systematically done by the Ma administration since 2008 is extremely alarming. Nobody in the world seems to take note though because the "good cop" says that it is for the sake of "cross-strait rapprochement".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-21610388745783323642014-06-08T06:33:05.867+08:002014-06-08T06:33:05.867+08:00Your post reminds me of a TT article that I saved ...Your post reminds me of a <a href="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2005/10/22/2003276891" rel="nofollow">TT</a> article that I saved from 2005: <br /><br /><i>Why the irritation over such support? Because at a philosophical level Lee’s opponents hold the US and its ideals in high and barely disguised contempt, despite the formidable number of them that sucked on the teat of the American education system and whose very survival in this place has been paid for over the decades by the US military. To this day, deep inside the heart of the unificationist ideologue, there lives derision toward the barbaric West and a longing for the time when the center of a true civilization — Beijing, presumably — can return to its rightful place as the capital of not the Middle Kingdom, as it is usually mistranslated, but the Central Kingdom.</i><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-56528926108680336822014-06-07T19:49:57.342+08:002014-06-07T19:49:57.342+08:00Michael,
The key part of this is the notion that ...Michael,<br /><br />The key part of this is the notion that Chinese ballistic missiles aren't targeting people on Taiwan anymore. The guy should take a minute to look at deployment areas of the seven conventional ballistic missile brigades in southeast China under Base 52, and understand the ranges of the missile systems. Then say that these missiles aren't targeting Taiwan. BK needs to get the new NSB director on record on this issue.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-43623046773266221872014-06-07T17:34:45.041+08:002014-06-07T17:34:45.041+08:00HahahahahahahahahaHahahahahahahahahaMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-65456951243721848132014-06-07T17:27:47.499+08:002014-06-07T17:27:47.499+08:00About the only missiles flying over Taiwan aimed a...About the only missiles flying over Taiwan aimed at Japan would have to be launched from Hainan and traveling in a straight line. If China were to attack Japan with missiles, there'd be much better places to launch from.<br /><br />As for missiles aimed at the US military, seeing as China has no intentions on invading the US, any aimed at the US military would likely be in retaliation to a US attack on China. There's really no other chance of China attacking the US except in retaliation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com