pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

I'll ante up. Just need to get a flight in a hurry. I would hate for them to miss the fireworks display. Does Rodman have a private aircraft or did the money go for tattoos and the wedding gown? :roll:

imntrt1 Loc: St. Louis

Let us not play him cheap....He too is a victim of their own Propaganda...His father beat into his head that they were big and bad, all his life. He is untested and inexperienced. He wants the world to take him seriously...how better to do that than take on the world super powers or SK. We too have an untested, inexperienced president...a wrong move by either of them can also trigger bad things.

jrzgrl Loc: USA

My husband served for 25 years as an MP but never assigned to the 18th MP brigade.
Thank you for your service!!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

I think when (if) the crap hits the fan Obummer needs to be playing golf somewhere and let the military take care of the problem. When they finish the job he can go apologize. :thumbup:

republican Loc: Glendora. Ca

Amen brother, all AMERICANS have give so much

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

Impressive! :thumbup: Must be tough living in the Peoples Republic of California. :roll:

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

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Admittedly, Kim Jong Un has made a few ridiculous statements, which is response to decades of American bullying and intimidation. George W. Bush made North Korea a charter member of Axis of Evil. American policy makers repeatedly make statements that more diplomatically than Un, but also more credibly threaten military violence. The typical phrase American hinting at brutalization of a country is "nothing is off the table" regarding dealing with the fanciful threat the country poses.

Un's comments are nothing but bluster to back off the US, whose latest provocation is conducting along with South Korea, its war games 12 miles off the North Korean coast. Imagine the crisis we could create if Russia did that with Cuba. Moreover, it is very unlikely that North Korea has advanced enough delivery systems to power a nuclear warhead over an American city. If they did, one to a handful of such deliveries, devastating though they would be, would assure that the entirety of North Korea in less than an hour would be turned into a parking lot.

North Korea does not have the resources that the US covets. That and its defensive nuclear capability means it is not a credible target for the superpower. A war against it would only benefit the military industrial complex, but not result in any foreign loot. Moreover, such an adventure could not be conducted on the pretense of defending anyone, since unlike the US, North Korea is not currently bombing or invading anyone. The cost to Americans would be too high, and the benefits would be merely the transfer of wealth from one group of Americans to a small circle of others. There is a much better target for American militarism; Iran.

Iran also has a leader who makes frequent blustery comments which he cannot back up. Iran, however, has one of the world's largest proven reserves of oil. If and when the United States decides to gain total control of that resource, it would do so whether or not Mahmoud Amadinejad had made any stupid comments prior to the attack. The case of Iraq shows that. Saddam made no threatening comments, unless his testimony about the vigorous Iraqi defense against invasion is a threat. The US still conquered Iraq on the transparently false charges that it had "weapons of mass destruction" and was complicit in the 9-11 terror attacks.

North Korea's status as a nuclear power, despite giving it no offensive abilities, is a deterrent against attack. The Bush II administration relied incessantly against the Axis of Evil, but instead of attacking the one that had a known nuclear arsenal, attacked one it falsely claimed was trying to develop them. The small North Korean inventory was enough to threaten some harsh defensive possibilities, which would have been enough to forestall an American attack even if North Korea were awash with strategic resources. Unfortunately for the jingoist who would wish otherwise, the US will not squash North Korea like a bug.

GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

:thumbup: :wink:

GeneB Loc: Chattanooga Tennessee

And thanks ro both of you as well.

missletoe Loc: Tujunga, CA

I say Nuke em in the dark....then shoot them when they glow

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

"George W. Bush made North Korea a charter member of Axis of Evil." P.Nagy

I knew it would come down to Bush's fault. Where you been P.? :lol:

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

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How many countries did Mao invade and conquer? How many has the "mad" Korean communist dynasty invaded, conquered, or bombed?

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

China has a lot more to lose losing us as a frendy tradeing partner than it dose north Korea. If push comes to shove they will let him blow in the wind.

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

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Drawing first blood might make us the nut job. Un is making a series of comments he cannot back up, because the US is constantly pressuring him to relinquish his nuclear arsenal. If you could see past the American propaganda, you would realize how ridiculous it is for the breath down Un's throat for the few warheads he has with their inadequate delivery systems compared to the vast US arsenal and the US record as the only country vicious enough to use such weapons against unarmed civilians.

PNagy Loc: Missouri City, Texas

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And what lesson is that; that we are far more vicious than they? That we don't think anything resembling the 8th Amendment applies to international affairs?