Posted on 11/26/2010 10:29:30 AM PST by Strategy
The U.S. Air Force is ready to respond immediately if hostilities between the two Koreas escalate, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said Wednesday. Schwarz told reporters after North Korea's attack on Yeonpyeong Island, "The bottom line is that U.S. Forces Korea cetainly is monitoring the situation carefully."
He mentioned Osan and Gunsan in South Korea, Kaneda in Okinawa, Japan, and other U.S. Air Force bases in the Pacific to emphasize that the U.S. has plenty of firepower in the region. Schwarz added USFK Commander Gen. Walter Sharp "has operational control of Air Force assets that reside on the peninsula and can be augmented if required."
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You went wrong in the earlier post where you said forty-one years. Maybe the world wide web has the same effect on you that TV does on the rest of us?
This is just another shakedown by NK. SK will quietly wire a few billion to NK.
Business between SK and China is too good to let Nk screw anything up. This is also designed to make the US look weak in Asia. Thank the idiots who voted for Hussein and the idiots who watch TV because ALL of TV enables Hussein and keeps him in power.
Go back to your ball games gramps. You need more brainwashing today from TV. 41 years 60 years - whatever. SK has had decades to build up their military.
Nothing will happen anyway. China and SK are getting rich trading with each other. We are picking up the tab for SK which is BS.
You're Red China. The Norks are a client. SKorea is a business partner.
SKorea is also an ally of the USA, your principal geopolitical competitor.
The leader of the USA is a feckless, naive coward.
Use the Norks to threaten SKorea. Expose their USA ally as unreliable and feckless.
Serves to separate SKorea from their ally, moves them closer to your orbit.
It's a game. The ultimate objective is the diminishment of the USA.
Red China...1
Obama.....zip
Yes, I recall that the original “police action” was in concert with the UN and that the action never ended but is now in truce. I also understand that we, the US, requested a UN mandate but that it is not a UN requirement of US.
So, since it is a UN action, as you assert, why is the US so prominent and the others so absent?
The US represents 4.4% of the global population. We have 30,000 troops in SK at our cost and our risk. I’ll risk that some may understand the implication of this proportionality.
When last I checked my facts the US is one nation of 192 member states. Where are the other 190 in this engagement?
No ball game for me. Much more entertaining watching a psycho like you make an ass out of yourself.
Which would give NK a good excuse to nuke our country they’ve been waiting for??????
Sure we’re ready to strike.
We always are ready to as far as I know.
Whether we will or not is a whole different matter.
I fear that if NK did a Pearl Harbor kind of move, obama would meet them with the white flag.
What Would Curtis E LeMay Do?
HAHA
It may well be time to evacuate all Americans out of South Korea. No matteer what we do for South Korea, let there be no American boots on the ground!
Whether the Air Force is ready to strike, and whether they will, if the NKs come pouring across the border, are two entirely different things where our jihadi _resident is concerned.
You provided a perfect layout of why this is all bluster.
Seoul would be removed as an operational city with the deaths of millions within a single day. At that point this would be no-holds barred war and China isn’t going to stand on the sidelines and watch while their client in the north is removed.
The North has killed many people but not nearly enough to warrant this level of risk. Nations will just have to tolerate them for now I’m afraid.
At some point, the rest of the capitalist free world will grow tired of China’s Frankenstein and hold them responsible. Maybe getting economic sanctions pointed China’s direction would be a better root cause solution.
Carpet bomb!!
amen !
There are a billion Chinese soldiers, funded by the American consumer, just waiting for the go word.
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