Reply #11: I hear you [View All]

"Personally, I think a free Taiwan is the way to go."

Yeah. That's what we have now, in all but name.

"But if we say outright that we were for Taiwanese independence, it may invite an attack from the mainland while we are fooling around elsewhere. I don't think anyone has planned for a war on 3 fronts. Even a draft wouldn't give us enough manpower."

I don't think that there is much chance of an actual invasion. The chinese navy is not all that hot. It would probably be more of an unnecessary provocation rather than trigger an invasion.

The US Army and to a limited extent air force is what is tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan. We don't have hordes of attack submarines or cruisers in the Persian gulf waiting to shoot cruise missiles towards Baghdad (or at least I hope we don't). Any possible invasion of Taiwan would have to go through air and sea, not over land.