Ping!
Weakness of the allies started WWII and later encouraged the Soviets and then the Maoists. And weakness invited North Korea to attack the south. Peace can only be held through overwhelming deterrence.
Kim better practice ducking. And put the final touches on his shelter(s).
Of course what he really needs to practice, is shutting up, but that doesn't appear to be an option with him.
This is a shot across somone's bow.
Ya know...planning possible attacks on Iran and North Korea only proves their point in getting nuclear weapons...we might attack them! So they better get in on the M.A.D. plan before its too late. Anyway there is a very good alternative which takes time but would instill permanent change inside the nation...free-market capitalism! The societies in China and Saudi Arabia are slowly liberalizing as we do trade with them. Why not do trade with the Irans, Cubas, and North Koreas of the world? It may seem like we are caving in to dictators, but in order to stay competitive in a capitalist nation, you have to spread ideas and concepts in order to fill niches and continue to be successful or start to be successful. Is it any coincidence that the nations with the freest markets have the freest lives?
And also, wouldn't it be best if that was our policy and we left the manpower to defend the homeland?
Hey kim Dumb Ill, you better star learning to Duck and Cover (as if that will really work)!
"Nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles, removed from ships and submarines under the 1991 Presidential Nuclear Initiative, are secured in central areas where they remain available, if necessary for a crisis," the paper says.
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Are you telling me we don't have any nukes on ships and subs? 1. I don't believe it. 2. If true, it represents a huge breach in our national security and I can't believe even the Rhino Bush SR would sign something like that.
I can understand reloading the equipment, but the US publicly committing to first use of nuclear weapons seems unlikely, especially without Congressional authorization. Such would create a furor that might force us into a position that hampers our options more than they are now. I can't imagine that the Pentagon would leak such a story either.
But allowing preemptive nuclear strikes against possible biological and chemical attacks effectively contradicts a "negative security assurance" policy declared by the U.S. administration of President Bill Clinton 10 years ago on the occasion of an international conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Dear Kyodo News,
You're not in Arkansass any more.
How on earth does this stuff get made public ..??
I suppose we still have a bunch of Clinton people in the Pentagon trying to screw things up by informing our enemies what we might be planning. After all, the dems believe we should level the playing field with our enemies by giving them our information - that way they wouldn't have any need to attack us. THESE PEOPLE ARE NUTS!!
Hmmmm?? ISN'T THAT TREASON OR SOMETHING ?? I MEAN WE USED TO CARE ABOUT THAT - BUT I GUESS WE DON'T ANYMORE.
It's always best to negotiate from a position of strength, and it doesn't take a rocket science to realize that our strength will be tested in these coming years. This is a good plan.
With Iran or NKorea now, assuming they did have the capability of getting a missile or two to the US, then what?
Say they take out LA or Atlanta. Surely, their leadership knows that within 10 minutes they would occupy a hold in the ground where their nation used to be.
Bin Laden at least thought he could hide safely in the depths of Afghanistan, a landlocked country filled with tunnels and underground facilities.
I just don't see NK or Iran doing more than blustering in their rhetoric -- unless their leader has decided on suicide by US Military.
FYI ping
Still wanna play, Kim Jong?
Kim Jong-il has a bad worse hair day.
AMF!
They should also make it perfectly clear.....if a terrorist group nukes anywhere in the US, those two regimes (the last two spokes in the axis of evil) will be first to bear the brunt of a full retaliation.....
That was then....this is now!
Would the United States have the will to respond with nuclear weapons to an attack on Japan or South Korea?
During his social Security press conference. Odds are not a reporter in the room understood a word of what he said. His prime time comments were addressed directly to foreign leaders, praise for China and Russia, scorn for N Kor.