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What to do about North Korea...?
Uh oh:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?I50915D5D The news is reporting that they've launched FOUR missiles now -- possibly one that can reach the U.S. mainland... I wonder what our Air Force guys in South Korea are doing right now... :-( -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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What to do about North Korea...?
Jay Honeck wrote:
Uh oh: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I50915D5D The news is reporting that they've launched FOUR missiles now -- possibly one that can reach the U.S. mainland... I wonder what our Air Force guys in South Korea are doing right now... Sounds like they are watching missiles fail mid-flight according to CNN. :-) I was sort of hoping we'd use this occasion for some live tests of our anti-missile laser and missile systems. It would be nice to have some free targets for a change. Matt |
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What to do about North Korea...?
I wonder what our Air Force guys in South Korea are doing right now...
Sounds like they are watching missiles fail mid-flight according to CNN. :-) I was sort of hoping we'd use this occasion for some live tests of our anti-missile laser and missile systems. It would be nice to have some free targets for a change. I wish I could feel so confident about this thing. While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and Gaza, I think the real nightmare scenario is developing in North Korea. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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What to do about North Korea...?
While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and Gaza, I think the real nightmare scenario is developing in North Korea. Or Guantalamo Bay? -- Cheers Quilly For four good books to read look at... http://www.quilljar.btinternet.co.uk/covers.htm Buy three or four altogether and get economy postage. |
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What to do about North Korea...?
While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and Gaza, I
think the real nightmare scenario is developing in North Korea. Or Guantalamo Bay? I'm confused: How is the issue of a (crazy, no less) tyrant threatening the world with nuclear war in any way similar to a POW camp in Cuba? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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What to do about North Korea...?
I have to agree with you. N. Korea is also thinking along the same lines I'm
sure. "Jay Honeck" wrote in message oups.com... I wonder what our Air Force guys in South Korea are doing right now... Sounds like they are watching missiles fail mid-flight according to CNN. :-) I was sort of hoping we'd use this occasion for some live tests of our anti-missile laser and missile systems. It would be nice to have some free targets for a change. I wish I could feel so confident about this thing. While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and Gaza, I think the real nightmare scenario is developing in North Korea. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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What to do about North Korea...?
"JH" == Jay Honeck writes:
JH While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and JH Gaza, I think the real nightmare scenario is developing in JH North Korea. Hmmmmm.....no. N. Korea is an isolated society controlled by a few kooks without a cause that inspires followers. True, the worst case is they shoot a couple of nukes off, let's say one in Asia, another to the US...followed with massive retaliation by the US. A much more likely scenario is they keep making threats until we can get some practical people in the White House, replacing the current idelogues, who will actually talk to the kooks and see what they really want (my guess is some assurance they won't be invaded). But the islamo-facist scenario is more profound, longer lasting, and insidious. There are, what, a billion+ followers of Islam, the large majority of which don't much care for what they think Western culture is. There are probably many hundreds of thousands who would eagerly take up arms against us, and many thousands who would volunteer to die against the "crusaders and jews". Furthermore, pretty much all countries (except a few extremists) understand NK is a problem. But Bush and crew have managed to convert a great deal of world sympathy and support against terrorism into something between hostility and indifference to our unilateral "efforts", which, in the case of Iraq, have almost certainly encouraged and aided the islamic fanatics. |
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What to do about North Korea...?
But the islamo-facist scenario is more profound, longer lasting, and
insidious. There are, what, a billion+ followers of Islam, the large majority of which don't much care for what they think Western culture is. There are probably many hundreds of thousands who would eagerly take up arms against us, and many thousands who would volunteer to die against the "crusaders and jews". The widespread (though perhaps not strongly felt) Arab support for the first invasion, after the little Kuwait incident, argues against this rather bigoted position. It seems to me that our response to the 9-11 vandals has created or at least amplified a lot of the anti-US sentiment, and made it far more difficult to mitigate that sentiment in the next fifty years. We get stung by a wasp. In retalliation, we find a hornet nest and beat it to a pulp, with predictable results, while shouting "Bad bees, bad bees!" Jose -- The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music. for Email, make the obvious change in the address. |
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What to do about North Korea...?
Jay Honeck wrote: Uh oh: http://makeashorterlink.com/?I50915D5D The news is reporting that they've launched FOUR missiles now -- possibly one that can reach the U.S. mainland... I wonder what our Air Force guys in South Korea are doing right now... I suspect our Special Ops crews are preparing for very secret missions to disable many components of NK's threat. After the real threat is suppressed, NK will look more and more like a brat stamping his feet. |
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What to do about North Korea...?
In article , Bob Fry
wrote: JH While the world's attention has been diverted to Iraq and JH Gaza, I think the real nightmare scenario is developing in JH North Korea. Hmmmmm.....no. N. Korea is an isolated society controlled by a few kooks without a cause that inspires followers. True, the worst case is they shoot a couple of nukes off, let's say one in Asia, another to the US...followed with massive retaliation by the US. While it is true that N. Korea is probably not our biggest nightmare in the long term, they still present a very real near term threat. A much more likely scenario is they keep making threats until we can get some practical people in the White House, replacing the current idelogues, who will actually talk to the kooks and see what they really want (my guess is some assurance they won't be invaded). Don't make the mistake of assuming that others are operating by roughly the same motivations as us. Sometimes diplomacy will work, but it requires that the other side is actually interested in peace. -- Bob Noel Looking for a sig the lawyers will hate |
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