US is planning to station second carrier in Pacific

[dArKeR]

AFP , WASHINGTON

Admiral Thomas Fargo, commander of US Forces Pacific

The US is seriously considering stationing a second aircraft carrier in the Asia Pacific region in the face of threats posed by nuclear-armed North Korea and a potential crisis across the Taiwan Strait, officials and analysts say.

The move is more likely, they said, because the US Navy need not send aircraft carriers anymore on a rotational basis to the Persian Gulf, where it had to enforce no-fly zones before Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's ouster.

The USS Kitty Hawk is the only aircraft carrier in the Asia-Pacific region at present and is permanently based in Japan to provide immediate response in case of a crisis across the Taiwan Strait or in the Korean peninsula.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2004/08/12/2003198388

[2Design]

1. didn't we just pull our troops our of south korea to send them to

iraq

[Dover]

2. I thought almost our entire navy had been deployed to that area

this summer for various 'rapid response' exercises in conjunction with other countries. So where are they now?

[Kenergy]

3. Yep

It looks like there's a war brewing.