Posted on 07/07/2006 10:11:57 AM PDT by maquiladora
Anyone notice how his "Military Officers" are so scrawny for lack of food?
I really feel sorry for the people of that country.
Do you really believe the State Department is setting foreign policy and not the president?
Sounds like a good time to remove all of our troops from the South Korean border. Massive airlift. Let South Korea know we are tired of them not guarding their own border and make North Korea wonder if we are clearing the Nuke Blast Area of our own soldiers.
No. I only meant that there is a large entrenched bureaucracy at State that is hard for any CinC to overcome due to the temporatry nature of his position.
We ran the whole cold war wrong up until the last few years and then finally made them go broke. Thank RR for most of that.
What you are saying is that we have to give into extortion from China and Russia, Russia, BTW, is a non player and wouldn't attack anyone right now. China will not either, all they really have is lots of man power and low tech, still.
We can wipe out N. Korea anytime we want to without being damaged ourselves.
People like you who are afraid to take it to the wall are the reason we are stitting in Korea now with a decades old cease fire and no resolution to the war we should have won easily.
Well, we can end the cease fire at anytime sumunabitch because the war never ended, remember icehole?
calex59, I take it you're a Veteran?
Unless you're talking nuclear, there's no way we can do this while we are engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan. President Bush knows this. That's why he's pushing for diplomatic measures. We have troops going to Iraq and Afghanistan for their third rotation. We simply don't have the manpower right now.
No, Mr. Kim, sanctions are not war. War is war.
Arrangements are being made to illustrate the difference if need be.
"People like you who are afraid to take it to the wall are the reason we are stitting in Korea now with a decades old cease fire and no resolution to the war we should have won easily."
And people like you are the reason we have 1/2 of the country fighting our every move. Sure, bomb N. Korea, and then Iran, and then Syria! Ahhh, heck, throw Jordan and Lebanon in for good measure. Did I hear a peep out of China? Here's your dose of bombs. Take it and shut up.
Tough talk without thought of human, economic or political cost = stupid.
The NK issue is not that easy. To assume that China would gripe and protest, and that's all, would be to repeat the one major mistake of General Douglas MacArthur in the Korean War.
He didn't believe China would mess with the US forces as they approached the Yallu River and the defeat of the NK Communists. 333,000 Red Chinese soldiers pouring across the border and driving US forces almost all the way back down the peninsula dispelled his delusion. (Although, MacArthur was still right about our response -- we should have nuked the Red Chinese then and eliminated that problem. But no, the Chinese Commies even then were counting on Truman and the Dems to back down, make nice, "contain" and appease).
NK has direct strings linked to their puppet masters in China, and indirect links to Iran, and to Russia. China won't hold back NK, and won't allow its client state on their southern border to be taken. Additionally, if we were to get tied up in NK, watch for Iran to make a move against the US or Israel, or China to move against Taiwan.
It's not that easy Cal -- these people aren't stupid. Evil, yes, but stupid? Nope.
>The president has alot of muddled men around him<.
Unfortunately, those guys know exactly what they are doing. In the executive branch: GWB - Skull & Bones, Cheney - Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission, Council of Foreign Relations; C. Rice - CFR; all the rest are CFR, except Rumsfeld who is Bilderberg. White House Staff - all CFR, Economic Advisors CFR, Mgmt. Budget - CFR, Trade Rep. CFR; Dept. of State all CFR (Colin Powell also Bilderberg), House of Rep. 16 (D & R)CFR, + Hassert
CFE & Bilderberg, Leach also Trilateral Commission; Senate: 13 (D&R) CFR, 4 Bilderbergs, 2 Trilateral Commission. Not to speak of the Media, Universities Business and Industry - mostly Bilderbergs, CFR & TC; Financial and Banking - mostly Bilderbergs; Foundations & Non-govt. organizations - all CFR or Bilderberg or both and
TC; Dept. of Defense - all CFR, Rumsfeld - Bilderberg;
Dept. Homeland Security - CFR; Dept. of Labor - CFR; Federal Reserve System - CFR, some Bilderberg, TC.
"How 'bout assassination? I know we have a "law" against it but would NK would start a war over it or would it be ding-dong the witch is dead...."
They are brain washed from a young age to believe dear leader is almost a god, and the US is the cause of all of their problems. So, if traced to the US, it would be seen as an act of war. However, if done properly, who would know where it came from? In that case, I'm ok with it.
Did I understand you correctly, Al?
"Did I understand you correctly, Al?"
I'm sorry, I was being rational... I didn't realize that's beyond your capacity.
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