Posted on 10/12/2006 7:12:47 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
UNITED NATIONS (AP) New U.S. draft Security Council resolution would authorize only non-military measures against North Korea over its claimed nuclear test.
Your right. We were told that we would serve as a speed bump with up to 80 percent casualties if they attacked us first. We would slow down their progress in order for the rest of PACAF to respond. It is the only base I have been stationed where we actually practiced losing. We were expected to last 72hrs. After this we performed EMD.
If we were to be an offensive force, we would attack from ROK, Japan, AK, Guam, Hickam, etc. I do agree that it would be nasty, but if we did it right, it would only be nasty initially. Doing things right seems to be our biggest problem though.
Yeah, Kim tried to make N. Korea the issue, but Iran is the task at hand. N. Korea's nukes are going to Iran, just as its missiles did. We either take invade, occupy and denazify Iran (actions we should be supporting instead of opposing in the "Palestinian" areas), or we have our soldiers crawl home in defeat and prepare to be invaded, ourselves (which is what many of our most conservative of European "friends" are wanting).
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Sorry- you didn't make that comment. I was replying to two comments at once and didn't differentiate-I just got carried away. My mistake and apologies.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that President Bush has said that basically all options are on the table but we (U.S.) prefer to use diplomacy first. As for NK, Kimmy will go nuts no matter what the resolution says. Also, I have bad words running through my head that I'd love to say to Russia and China.
It is only a few million actually, and personally I believe the loyalty to that little queer leader would be short lived. Remember, the military is fairly well fed, but their families are starving. They aren't happy. They do what they do for the most part because they are forced, or because they want to feed their family.
Quote "Hopefully I'm wrong but I have a feeling in a few years we will be reading:
New U.S. draft Security Council resolution would authorize only non-military measures against IRAN over its claimed nuclear test."
You are kidding right? Few years????????? Try a few months.
Kimmy won't go nuts with this resolution. He will laugh it off as always. OHHHH of course he will make threats and wave his arms in the air. He will make his people think war is upong them and so on. BUT he will do NOTHING.
The game shall continue on
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061011-5.html
I am talking about a major world economic and industrial center: Seoul, Korea. If we strike NK, Seoul is gone. There is no way it can withstand what NK can throw at it in the first 24 hours.
Then our troops will be bulldozed over by a huge NK army.
The only way I think we could prevent that is with a LOT of nuclear strikes. I simply don't see that happening in this day and age, and certainly not to prevent NK from getting a nuke and expect China to stay out of it.
I am just trying to show people the facts of life in this matter.
"We affirmed that we have no intention of attacking North Korea."
Because he can't. It simply is not a military option.
Nasty would make Iraq look like a picnic. Kim Jong Il threatened Washington and New York today. His country's capabilities are limited, but he has close ties with Pakistan, and God knows who else. Pakistan is only friendly to us because we threatened their existence. You never know the full cunningness of these little bastards, or who may be helping who. Iran is a player in all this, too. (What we call background players). I would sacrifice Seoul, ROK before I sacrificed Washington or NY, or El Paso for that matter.
Exactly.
Isn't the ROK a big boy by now? The Cold War is long over. The fact that we have 40K on the DMZ as a trip wire is absurd. It's time for the ROK to put up or shut up. They're the 10th largest economy in the world and they can't take care of themselves?
Kind of puts Hezbollah's 4000 shells over a month ionto perspective, doesn't it?
NK is china's pitbull on a leash. The muzzies are their feral orcs set loose to do any harm they can to us and will be eliminated when their usefullness is over.
I agree, but we aren't there for only NK. You have China who obviously backs them and Russia who secretly backs them. They are actually in the process of reducing our forces in the ROK right now. From 37 to 27 thousand. Something else that makes no sense. That is all branches. The Air Force worldwide within the next year is cutting 40,000 jobs according to the AF Times most recent issue.
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