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Why they must stay off-shore? So that they cannot fuck our girls?
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SINGAPORE - Singapore has agreed to allow the US to deploy four new warships to its port but officials stressed Saturday the vessels will not be permanently based there and their crews will live aboard during ship visits.
Singapore has agreed "in principle" to the US request "to forward deploy up to four littoral combat ships (LCS) to Singapore on a rotational basis," the two sides said in a joint statement.
Final details of the agreement will be worked out by naval leaders from both countries, said the statement issued after a meeting in Singapore between US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his Singaporean counterpart Ng Eng Hen.
Singapore, located along the crucial Malacca Strait that links the Indian and Pacific Oceans, had previously agreed to at least two of the US littoral combat ships deploying.
US officials cite the deal on the littoral combat ships, a speedy new class of vessel, as the latest example of Washington's strategic shift to the Asia-Pacific.