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A month after Germany surrendered in May 1945, America's eyes turned to the Far East, where the bloodiest battle of the Pacific war was joined on the island of Okinawa.
Twelve thousand U.S. soldiers and Marines would die -- twice as many dead in 82 days of fighting as have died in all the years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Within weeks of the battle's end came Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Three weeks later, Gen. MacArthur took the Japanese surrender on the battleship Missouri.
That was 65 years ago, as far away in time from today as the Marines' arrival...
Bring Our Marines Home
As for the US and China over Taiwan, read the Rand's Report on how China plans to restrict US entry into the area if war between Taiwan and it is ever to break out called "Entering the Dragon's Lair: Chinese Antiaccess Strategies and Their Implications for the United States.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG524/
But as long as Ma and the KMT are running things, this is all fantasy.