Uh... what's a tat?
Posted on 04/08/2013 3:14:34 AM PDT by markomalley
The United States and South Korea have reportedly drawn up joint plans for a retaliatory set of tit-for-tat responses to any strikes by North Korean on its neighbour.
The scale of the response has been set down in a new war plan to ensure that there is no unintended escalation into broader war.
The new "counter-provocation" plan is calling for an immediate but proportional "response in kind" to North Korea if it decides to launch a ground attack or a missile, the New York Times reported last night, citing unnamed US officials.
Under the plan, the source of any North Korean attack will be hit with similar weapons, the report said.
If the North Koreans were to shell a South Korean island that had military installations, the plan calls for the South to retaliate quickly with a barrage of artillery of similar intensity, the paper noted.
White House officials are attempting to downplay the military build-up on the penninsula in an effort to calm the situation. Dan Pfeiffer, the senior advisor to President Barack Obama, said on Sunday that North Korea had display similar behaviour "many times" in the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Uh... what's a tat?
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Gee, good plan. /sarc
NK takes out a world-class thriving metropolis like Seoul, and tit-for-tat would be to, what, take out Pyongyang? The Detroit of Asia?
Meanwhile, millions of innocent people on both sides will die. And Dear Leader doesn’t realize that North Korea has nothing to lose.
This is precisely the kind of plan that you get from ‘leadership” that:
- has no respect for human life (as shown by his support for abortion)
- has no experience with diplomacy
- has no military experience
- is spineless
Sounds like JFK. They just want a kinda-almost-war.
What moron thought this up?
The only thing an enemy really understands is overwhelming superiority as a response to an attack.
So if NK chooses a civilian target Obama will retaliate by,,,going golfing...
The first time I remember hearing it was when (j)urinalists complained about one of their ilk being killed in the battle of Bhagdad. US troops were taking fire from a hotel so a tank blew a big hole in it and a (j)urinalist was killed...,...(no loss imo)
IIRC, there was some kind of court case brought about over this but I don't remember the outcome.
Oh, yeah, giving them the first shot is SUCH a good strategy!
I’m getting a headache from the stupidity of this Keystone Kops bunch!
Ok, that made me LOL!
You’re right... :)
first of all, I don't want tat
second, the whole thing lacks that essential Capone feeling.
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. *That's* the *Chicago* way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that? I'm offering you a deal. Do you want this deal?After all, Obama is from Chicago, is he not?
Or as Genghis Khan, might put it,
vanquish your enemies and chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth and see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.
Good times.
Telling my second daughter that we would spank her if she did “X” never worked well, as she thought we were making a deal. She could do “X” if she was willing to get a spanking. We had to find a more useful form of punishment.
I’m afraid the same applies to NK. We have now announced that they can do whatever they want, as long as they are willing to accept the a punishment of their choosing.
Zer0 doesn’t want to be portrayed as a “bully”
His feminine side keeps getting in the way. Problem is, it’s both sides for this little pansy.
You got that right. It is one insult and one outrage after another with this boob in the White Hut.
Obama will send Michelle over there to Korea, and she will solve all the US problems at once.
The White House has become a reality TV show.
WHAT’S THE DUMBS**T GOING TO COME UP WITH TODAY?
“Proportional response”
Comes from the lefts idea that Israel shouldn’t use more force in response to an attack that the turd heads had used to attack Israel.
We don’t have a gunfighter for President. That’s for sure.
11:15 AM Obama and Biden receive the presidential daily briefing.
RIP, concept of overwhelming military response.
Once upon a time, America actually sought to win conflicts against aggressors. Now it’s just “tit-for-tat.”
Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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