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Bay: Anyone else have a sinking feeling about North Korea?
Austin American-Statesman ^ | 05/28/10 | Austin Bay

Posted on 05/28/2010 6:30:13 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Bay: Anyone else have a sinking feeling about North Korea?

Austin Bay, CREATORS SYNDICATE

Published: 5:55 p.m. Friday, May 28, 2010

In a 1945 essay titled "Funny, But Not Vulgar," George Orwell argued that "A thing is funny when ... it upsets the established order." Toward the end of the essay, Orwell added: "To be funny, indeed, you have got to be serious."

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Kim can't handle real sunshine — the truth. In the 60 years since the Korean War began, South Korea has decisively defeated North Korea in the social and economic spheres. Only in military terms, in the base destructive power of Pyongyang's large armies and nascent nuclear weapons program, does the North challenge the South. War is all Kim has.

/snip

It's time to end the Korean War and that means ending the Kim regime, not placating it. That's the message to send Pyongyang.

Until South Korea and the Obama administration face that fact, the wicked joke is on us

(Excerpt) Read more at statesman.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: endgame; kimjongil; nkorea; walmartsupplier
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To: antidemoncrat

Right. It is almost certain that that is one of the reasons they decided to do it.


21 posted on 05/28/2010 7:30:52 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

22 posted on 05/28/2010 7:31:05 PM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout hearts...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I think this is a set up by Iran and NK to see if the US will push back or if they are free to do what they want and not face war. They are getting help for our old enenmies China and Russia. What could be more direct?

When OBL targeted the towers he did not think there would be much push back. The axis of evil is up to the old games - testing the will of American leaders.

23 posted on 05/28/2010 8:08:39 PM PDT by q_an_a (a)
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To: tacticalogic

Your son is one of the safest persons in the world as long as he is on that sub. I say this with authority as an old Sonar Tech.


24 posted on 05/28/2010 8:52:05 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: ExpatGator
Your son is one of the safest persons in the world as long as he is on that sub. I say this with authority as an old Sonar Tech.

Thanks. I think I'd still like it better if he was on a boomer.

25 posted on 05/28/2010 8:53:34 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

Boomers are targets of attack subs.


26 posted on 05/28/2010 9:05:18 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Solitar
Boomers are targets of attack subs.

Yeah, but the NORKS don't have any.

27 posted on 05/28/2010 9:07:45 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why is the press not screaming at Obama about taking a second m-f’ing vacation since the oil spill “he’s handled since day one”, but because of the Korea situation that’s the worst its been since 1953? The pissant takes off to Chicago like there’s nothing going on in the world that commands his god-like attention.

Let me tell you the lapdop, puppet shute press would be crawling up the ass of any other president and any of their press secretaries’ butts demanding to know what steps they were taking to prevent all-out war from starting on the peninsula, and wringing their hands because Kim’s a nutjob with nukes and this might be the last hurrah as North Korea’s pretty much done for and feels it hasn’t got much to lose...

You know the press would be merciless and at the very least, asking questions and skewering any president taking ANOTHER F’ING VACATION in such a short time.

I believe Obama has looked in the mirror and KNOWS he’s in over his head. He knows he cannot do the job. ANd he’s freaking out in plain sight.


28 posted on 05/28/2010 9:13:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: tacticalogic

Fast attack boats are designed to sneak up on boomers....


29 posted on 05/28/2010 9:31:51 PM PDT by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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To: ExpatGator
Fast attack boats are designed to sneak up on boomers....

I know. But nobody that has any is pissed off at us right now.

30 posted on 05/28/2010 10:03:55 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

But the Russians do.


31 posted on 05/28/2010 11:45:19 PM PDT by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I would like to start a pro-SK petition.

On the grounds that a robust defense of the peninsula is necessary so that Son Dambi will keep making videos like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgKj7rOqqtM&feature=related


32 posted on 05/28/2010 11:50:07 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (Palin / Rubio 2012)
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To: Solitar

They’ve got stuff that hunts attack subs, too.


33 posted on 05/28/2010 11:50:50 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

No. Not really.

NorKo has done this before, and they’ll likely do it again.

NorKo is run by a 2 year old craving attention.


34 posted on 05/28/2010 11:51:41 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (There is no truth to the rumor that Ted Kennedy was buried at sea.....)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

LOL.


35 posted on 05/29/2010 12:36:38 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
runs a global weapons and narcotics smuggling ring, and

And operates the very finest counterfeiting operation for American $100 bills. It is one of NK's top exports, right up there with nukes stuff.

36 posted on 05/29/2010 2:05:32 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: tacticalogic

At the appropriate time his sub will get appropriate orders to attack NK warships with the stricture that there must be no one hurt.


37 posted on 05/29/2010 2:08:33 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Well, Kim is sais to be seriously ill. Too, economically the place is a mess and people are starving.

I wonder if Kim would do an Adolf Hitler "Gotterdamerung" type of thing to go out with a bang, so to speak.

North Korea has all kinds of military, but my sense is that they are good for a sunday punch and that is about it.

Supporting an army in the field is expensive and takes superior logistics.The North doesn't have it.

If they don't get to Seoul in the first 36 hours that will about wrap it up.

38 posted on 05/29/2010 4:43:25 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Right. Their conventional force cannot sustain lengthy offensive. A week at most.
NK military can make hideous mess but cannot win the war. They are more like state terrorist organization with nukes.
39 posted on 05/29/2010 4:52:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Bump.


40 posted on 05/29/2010 5:02:00 AM PDT by nw_arizona_granny ( garden/survival/cooking/storage- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299939/posts?page=5555)
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