In other news, dozens of Democrats who had previously said that North Korea was a more pressing threat than Iraq are about to start saying the exact opposite ..... absolutely no film at 11.
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Where is that 690K number coming from??
A few dozen megatons in the right bunkers would be a better option, tactically speaking...
We don't have that many troops to dispatch.
We have no business entering N. Korea. They are not a threat. We need to jaw-bone with them and understand the complexities of the situation.
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This kind of talk from the S. Koreans is going to shake up the N. Koreans! They need to cut that out!!!
President Bush replied "Who?"
God, the press is sooooo imcompetent. Saw this out on Friday. This was out of a leaked S. Korean internal gov't "document". Not as this article states. Secondly, the numbers quoted are absurd. There are not 690,000 u.s. troops, and there is no way the u.s. would send anywhere near those numbers to protect S. Korea. We are pulling troops outta there partly due to lack of respect. This is an intential "leak" to get the N. Koreans to engage in talks. Nothing else.
A somewhat suspect story. The ROK Ministry of Defense is well aware of US strengths. Also, the ROKs don't need that kind of troop strength from us given the size of their own active forces and reserves. The only thing they really need from us is additional air power and precision strike weapons and our intelligence assets.
No the US would not. It would be far more high tech and devastating than that. Ludicrous.
Well I got news for you, we ain't got 690,000 to deploy.
The Pentagon gave up on the two front war plan some time agao and we don't have the resources for this unless we reinstate the Draft which would be fine with me.
The first wave of US deployments ? About 300 nuclear warheads.
We have great nuclear capabilities but few conventional forces. Our leaders let our conventional forces pull down too far.
The draft is gone, the bases are gone, the people to train them are gone and the factories and infrastructure to supply them are gone.
To get the infrastructure in place to rebuild them would take years and many billions of dollars that we don't have.
We can nuke the world as Russia can, but we don't have the boots, conventional equipment, logistic support, or bases to take, occupy and control a mediocre third world country like Iraq.
It is vital to have both nuclear and a strong conventional force. One without the other is useless.
Nuclear is useful for deterrent only.No one can win in nuclear exchange.
We are seeing our country slipping into the same has been role the former economic and military world powers faded into.
Just as Regan sensed the economic and military weakening of the Soviet Union and took advantage of it, now our enemies sense the same about us.
It looks like we are going to try to appease those in the middle east who hate us with our money and with chunks of Israel.
Shouldn't we all give thanks to those who were instrumental in North Korea's new found belligerence,
Thank You Jimmah
Thank You Bubba
Thank you Maddie
What if China puts their fingers in that pie again?
IF we had that many troops to send we'd probably have to pull them from other countries around the world. I have a hard time believing that we would do that. A couple of nukes would be a great attitude adjuster for little Kimmy.