Posted on 12/10/2010 9:50:24 AM PST by Barry Secrest
An Unlikely Threesome: The Who
You see, past administrations have always offered alms to the North Koreans in order to keep the peace. Obama and the current slate of South Koreans have had neither the wherewithal nor the ostensible interest to continue furthering this sort of "kick the can down the road" foreign policy madness, mainly because their foreign policy is one comprised chiefly of Globalism rather than Nationalism. However, the wild-card these days is the fact that North Korea now has nuclear capability, which adds a certain "je ne sais uh-oh" to the predicament. But consider, for a moment, the other wild-card. Much has been made of the attack, because of North Korea's nuclear stance and the fact that the US agreed to pull out forward deployed tactical and theater nuclear weapons in 1991. But what many fail to see is the agreement in question was predicated upon a non-nuclear power. The North Koreans now have nuclear weapons, making their off-limits nuke attack status void, as far as the US would be concerned--whether stated or not. Were I the North Koreans, I would be hesitant to test this particular hypothesis.
What is being universally overlooked, however, is the saber-rattling that the Chinese have also been demonstrating. Noting that the ChiComs remain Totalitarian Puppet-masters makes us wonder if perhaps China may be indirectly putting Obama to the test. It would be a simple thing for the Chinese to orchestrate a three-way confrontation with America in the middle as the designated defender of the South Koreans. But why?
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Gotta love the author’s proof it was a missile - because the military insists it was nothing, it must be something.
Well, gee, maybe also because quite a few real missilleers, including air force generals and an editor at Jane's Missiles and rockets, along with about 98 percent of posters with eyewitness missile-viewing experience who opined on EVERY PUBLIC FORUM discussion board in the days this happened, from the L.A. Times to Free Republic to YouTube, ALSO looked at hte video and said, "missile plume, definltely NOT airplane contrail."
Mostly because the light of the setting sun confirms a vertical north-west-bound plume -- IN SPITE OF all the best efforts of people here to convince people of a pretend "optical illusion" that somehow the curvature of the earth made a five-mile-high, eastbound underlit condensation trail from a UPS plane look for all the world like a vertical north-west-bound plume. That TRICKY sun!
And ... well, gee, maybe because SIMPLE COMMON SENSE tells every soul reading this that NO ONE but someone of severly impaired visual/cognitive ability would be fooled for more than a minute or two into thinking an airplane contrail was a missile plume.
Yet we have all kinds of clowns on here -- including one who had gone for nearly two years without making a single post to FR, and then two days after the Leyvas video footage of the launch was aired on TV, appeared with a vengeance and to date has made 83 posts on NO OTHER TOPIC but the "mystery missile" in at attempt to convince people of a pretend "optical illusion" that our eyes and the sun played tricks on the poor unwashed idiot "experts" who can't tell the dif between a horizontal plane contrail and a vertical solid propellant missile plume and the vehicle making it -- posting literally dozens of photos of various airline contrails that, in still shots, MIGHT be confused for vertial plumes of solid propellant. That's the "pretend" part of all this, and the folks pretending it have all manner of insults, ranging from "kooks" to "paranoid delusionals" to describe those who dare to raise eyebrows at their fabulous "proofs."
The reality is that ANYONE of normal cognitive ability who is on the scene -- as the cameraman of 11 years and who has stated that the object he was filming "appeared to be headed in a Westerly direction" and that he saw the object making the plume for only two or three minutes, though he took about ten minutes of footage -- will quickly, after no more than a minute or two at most, be able to distinguish for certain whether it's a plane contrail or a missile. It is SHEER FANTASY that the cameraman might have been "confused." And it is SHEER WISHFUL THINKING that folks with quite a lot of experience, professional and/or lay, with observing first-hand missile launches, don't know video of a missile launch when they see it.
Another truth: most of the folks desperately trying to "prove" a mythical "optical illusion" using Queeg's "geometric logic" approach have never seen a missile launch, but they've seen lots of contrails that look like the phenomenon in the video, and though they were never fooled for long into thinking it was actually a missile, they're smarter than average and can understand how the mass of Dunderheads who've actually seen missiles could be fooled.
Be prepared for a world in which that thing filmed off of LA was a missile ... because it was.
You may want to check your keyboard - for some reason it types in ALL CAPS at RANDOM TIMES for no APPARENT REASON.
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