Personally I wouldn't like to rely solely on those to deter them. They could take a few hits from nukes over there and keep on keeping on. We need conventional might to back up the WMD cards.

I think that the Chinese don't regard human life the way we do, at least those that make decisions. What's a few million people to them if they net the continental united states? They have 1 billion people living there.

STUBS!