R. David Steele wrote:
Not everyone keeps up with various policies and DoD planning.
the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen Myers, was picked
to plan for this potential war.

Actually, you're the one who seems out of touch. The Joint Staff
plans for all sorts of wars all the time. But Presidents don't pick
Chairmen of the JCS to plan any particular wars. Indeed, the
Chairman's job is mostly to supervise current ops; the Staff does
long-term planning regardless of who is in charge.

There were several articles in the Washington Post here, when the
GWOT started (just after Sept 11th), on how Gen. Myers was
selected to plan for a possible war with China.

Strange, I cna't find any such articles in their archives. The only
relevant articles I could find with the words Myewrs and China were about
his recent visit, where the rtalked about the improvement of relations
between the US and China.

Please cite a specific article (or even a specific date).

And how he was
out of his element with the GWOT. It is common knowledge, at
here in DC,

That "here in DC" stuff won't play. Whatever was "common knowledge" in your
world certianly wasn't common knowledge in Crystal City (which is where I
was on 9/11).

Not everyone in the world sees appeasement as being fair minded.
Many see those who use appeasement as being weak thus prey.

I said not a word in favor of appeasement. If China were demanding what you
say, yes, I'd agree with your conclusions. But they aren't.

Look, I know I won't convince you, and you certainly won't convince me. So
I'm not going to argue with you. Just promise to come back in a decade when
there hasn't been a war with China.

A war over Taiwean doesn't count, BTW. That is the one area I could easily
see a war breaking out, but it won't be about excluding the US from Asia or
any such nonsense. .

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