i thought we were broke? how much will this cost?...........from the diplomat.......
"Defence Secretary Robert Gates announced that the US Navy will forward-deploy Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to Singapore. This is striking inasmuch as they would be the first US warships stationed on the island.
"If it’s June and you’re gazing out across the Narragansett Bay—as you do from the deck at the Naval Station Newport Officers’ Club—it must be time to raise a glass to the rebellious souls who burned HMS Gaspee in 1772. The Gaspee affair was part of a North American backlash against British revenue-raising measures following the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). That globe-spanning conflict made Great Britain ‘master of the world,’ in the words of one popular history. Indeed, Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan, a denizen of these parts during the 1880s and 1890s, noted that its triumph left the British Empire the proud owner of French Canada, along with strategic positions from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean"...........LINK
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