They want Assad gone because he refused to okay the Syrian part of the Qatari Gas Pipeline. It’s really that simple.

Good grief ... could you please Google, “who’s funding rebels in Syria” before making such outlandish statements???!

Aww c’mon, Tyler. The evidence is out there — and strong — that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are behind the funding and arming of the rebel armed groups in Syria. Especially Qatar. And especially ISIS and Al Nustra (the Syrian Al Qaeda).

It’s got that steampunk-sorta look to it. Ugly but useful, no?

“I wouldn’t have looked so bad if they’d given me my teeths!! Nom-nom-nom-nom .....”

That I may be, but you can’t keep your mind off of me, can you? You just can’t keep your hands to yourself. I fill your every waking thought.

I’ve made the arrangements. You can pay me back in installments if you’d like. Anything to make you happy. She’s less than a couple of hundred miles away from you, just head due south down the I-25.

Oh don’t mind him too much, folks. EvilFD just has a boner for me he can’t scratch.

Aw c’mon man .... everyone’s starting to see you’ve got a man-crush on me.

Not against massive swarm tactics - barrages of missiles, aircraft attacks and torpedoes, all coordinated to happen at the same time. It’ll be about sheer numbers.

Deep down, I hope you’re right. China’s been so belligerent lately. It makes that whole Ukraine and Russia thing look so stupid (and so obviously about oil).

See, you know what it’s all about! High 5! We’re here on FA to enjoy the toys and speculate and conject about the possibilities and wherever our shit imaginations can take us! LOL

Damn. I was just kidding. Seriously?? LOL

That’s it though, isn’t it? China’s war strategy is driven now mostly by the desire to totally neutralize American power in Southeast Asia. First thing they’re going to want to do is take out the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Japan, including our massive Marine base in Okinawa. They’ll look to simultaneously take out Guam and…

Good one ... LOL. I suddenly had this image of a bunch of sailors on the deck just pouting and staring unhappily at their Samsung Galaxys. Even the pilots sitting in their planes. LOL.

EvilFD *hearts* OGLOCC. White knight! White knight!! Or anyone else he can leech on to.

Well, you sorta got that right. You left out the U.S. And oh, Turkey.

That wasn’t any random explosion in a chemical warehouse in Tinjian. Those were missiles being disguised and carried in cargo containers and one of them got mishandled and ended up exploding :)

Yeah but seriously — 65 knots? 80 knots? The bow wave of the carrier would end up being 3 stories high and it would be generating a rooster tail higher than the height of the deck for goodness’ sake.