Posted on 08/28/2003 6:33:29 AM PDT by prarie earth
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:03:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The DPRK is heavily involved in supplying weapons, including missiles, to enemies of America all over the world. They are also, apparently, helping countries that hate us to develop nuclear weapons (and, I am pretty sure, chemical and biological weapons as well).
This cannot go on indefinitely. Someone is going to win this war, and someone is going to lose. But all of us are going to pay the price for appeasing dictators, just as we have in the past.
I think there is very big war coming- and if America escapes without losing a major city or two, we will be very lucky.
This wishful thinking (by some on this board) that somehow China is going to ride to the rescue is nonsense- China wants us OUT of the Pacific just as much as Japan did in 1941. If that can be accomplished without China actually having to fight us, they wil jump at the chance.
I agree with you here, I think we're a lot closer than anyone higher up is letting on. Bush is playing it cool, but he's also ready for this poker game to turn into a gunfight at any second.
We will move on NK AFTER we receive assurances that China won't move on Taiwan.
If China wants Taiwan, they can take their best shot; it'll be an expensive ass whuppin they won't soon forget. We won't let them have it, and they can't take it from us. The U.S. Navy is more than capable of swatting down a 'people's invasion', even if the rest of our military is fully engaged fighting against North Korea.
Even without the intervention of the U.S. Navy, it's a roll of the dice whether or not they could take it. Their best odds are in setting up a naval blockade, which would take weeks to become effective. They don't have weeks. America is in a fairly triggerhappy and outward looking mood. With as bad as we got beaten around the head and shoulders with Liberia, there's no way that Taiwan would go unnoticed.
Absolutely correct. Americans NEVER see a war coming- we always sem to be surprised when yet another one breaks out, as though war was something completely new to the world and we just can't believe anyone would really want to start one...
For what it's worth, I think we took Iraq to give us a good, stable base in the center of the Middle East, so that, when the big war in the Pacific does start, we can keep the bad guys there at bay, rather than having to fight full-scale wars on two fronts at once.
But if we are right, America (and our allies, like Australia) are really going to pay in blood for the Clinton-era downsizing and feminization of the military. It very well may mean the difference between fighting a conventional war, vs a theater nuclear war.
Now let's all think happy thoughts, worry about the California recall, the MTV awards, or whatever other distractions are being fed to us as "news".
I'd make that my tagline, except that I haven't figured how the heck you go about MAKING a tagline. Is there some secret code I have to break to do this?
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