Posted on 04/03/2013 3:14:01 PM PDT by Jyotishi
In response President Obama ordered a ballistic missile defence system be moved to the nearest U.S. military base to the rogue state
North Korea dramatically escalated tensions with America tonight by warning it had approved nuclear strike plans.
"The moment of explosion is approaching fast," the North Korean military said, warning that war could break out "today or tomorrow".
In response, President Obama ordered a ballistic missile defence system be moved to the nearest U.S. military base to the rogue state.
The U.S. defence system will move to Guam, the nearest American military base to North Korea, 2,000 miles south east of Pyongyang in the Pacific Ocean.
U.S. defence secretary, Chuck Hagel, said: “Some of the actions they have taken the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests of our allies starting with South Korea and Japan.
“Also there have been threats the North Koreans have leveled at our base in Guam and Hawaii.”
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Im pooping my pants in anticipation/sarc
Meanwhile, somewhere at the White House or wherever the hell Obama is today, he is practicing his bows, Obama knows how to talk to dictators, since he’s one himself..maybe they can exchange notes
Not to scare people worse, but I sat in Senate hearings on the Taepodong program and our BMD capabilities in 1995. I sat there and heard a sitting Senator dismiss the whole strike on the US scenario saying it would never happen and strategic BMD was a colossal waste of money. Someone responded that we didn’t know what the world would like like in a decade. Now we are 18 years later. And exactly the scenario of a limited NORK strike threat is upon us. I’m just happy we gave BMDO what we did to develop and deploy what we have now by shoving it down Clinton’s throat - which could be far greater had it not been totally sabotaged by this WH the last 4 plus years and repeatedly undermined from within during the Clinton era.
Nope. No President is going to fire the first shot. I would be willing to bet they don’t even fire the second shot.
All of the folks talking about “nuking” North Korea are video game warriors with the slightest idea of the consequences.
Today, so far as I know, not one American has been killed there in years.
Let the little dog bark.
I read it. The sex parts were great.
We could debate whether Stalin was psychopathic - in my view, he was - but I would not consider Stalin “irrational”.
Stalin was completely rational, and absolutely lacking in anything even vaguely approximating normal human morality.
Stalin saw himself as a farmer, and he saw the Soviet Union as his farm. The human population of the USSR were his livestock.
As long as his purposes were served by keeping them alive, Stalin did what he could to keep them alive. When it became inconvenient to keep them alive, he let them die. Any of his "farm animals" that troubled him were killed. If he had to kill one, he killed one. If he had to kill a million, he killed a million.
He had no more qualms about killing a million Russians than the manager of a large-scale chicken farm has about culling a million chickens if some contagious virus infects the flock. It's an inconvenience... that's about it.
I read somewhere that an Kremlin insider who was part of Stalin's inner circle said that - at least after WWII was settled - the subject of every single meeting at which Stalin was present was this: to solve such-and-such a problem, whom do we kill?
William F. Buckley made the argument that Josef Stalin was the richest man in history. He owned the entire Soviet Union, and his feeling toward it was the same as the way you feel about your car keys.
That’s the bench of the Louisville “men’s” basketball team reacting to one of their starters breaking his leg.
I blame Dennis Rodman.
Maybe, but that would seriously annoy China...
Doesn’t Kim know that the “destruction” of America is Obama’s job #1?
ooohhhhh
I purposely avoided watching any video of that incident.
Yes, the plan seems to be working. Now all we have to do is send in Pee Wee Herman to finish them off.
Fair enough.
That being said, what would your advice be in this regard?
I don't have any...I don't know what the right thing to do is. Hopefully someone with better information than I have is making those decisions :)
A few mis-aimed missiles and a big “I’m sorry” should undermine the ROK army and our ally, South Korea!
This is the best post of the day! I love Monty Python...probably should hire them to be our State Dept!
When I was the our Officers told us we could expect 10,000 artillery shells per minute to hit Seoul. Yes, per minute.
Still not as dangerous to the U.S. as 0bama.
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