Posted on 10/11/2006 7:03:38 PM PDT by Flavius
PLANS previously drafted by the Pentagon predict 52,000 US military casualties and one million civilian dead in the first 90 days of conflict if America attacked Pyongyang. The US leadership is looking at international economic and diplomatic sanctions against North Korea as its primary response to Monday's nuclear test.
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China and russia arming the jihadis and pulling kim il's strings and we have a major problem with our citizens buying chinese crap that pays for the weapons that kill our soldiers and may kill us.
In our arsenal we have many nukes with many yields to choose from. With air burst the fallout is minimal but the high speed neutrons, gamma ray, and blast wave will kill you.
yeah, it is a risk/reward equation which for politicians invariably means nothing will be done until something REALLY bad happens as a result of doing nothing.
Uh, oh you are about to get on the bad side of the MOABites.
The good news is we'll never drop a 1 megaton nuclear bomb anywhere, least of all Pyongyang. Small tactical nuclear bombs/missiles could be used to stop their infantry advance, destroy their artillery and maybe cutr their supply lines. It would save hundreds of thousands of lives in the event of a full-scale invasion by the Noks, and fall out would be minimal.
Only an idiot would invade Korea at this point.
We should warn the Chinese that if they don;t stop Kim, we wuill goive the Japanese nucleaar missles - and the Taiwanese and any other eastern powers on our side them too.
Where we should commit Americn troops is in Iran and Syria and finish the job we started with Afghanistan and Iraq.
Whatever, but the quote which is relevant is that of the President who says "NO options" are off the table.
In any case, we have no "intention" to attack NK but we also have no intention of allowing any dangerous military buildup by it.
You don't really believe we have any "intention" to attack the NK regime without justification do you?
Everyone forgets that the Republic of Korea (ROK aka South Korea) has 600,000 men under arms, and another couple of million in the reserves. The ROKs are tough as nails, too, and shouldn't be taken for granted.
Not to mention the fact that the North Koreans have had 40 years to tunnel the hell out of their country. Ya gotta find 'em before you can kill 'em.
Have these people seen the "soldiers" we would be facing? I think Nicole Ritchie has more meat on her bones than these walking chopsticks.
Didn't Joe Biden predict that Desert Storm (1991) would cost America 10,000 lives to invade? These estimates are so presposterous as to be beneath comment. And why are so many Americans so damn squeamish when it comes to the sacrifice neccessary to destroy the enemy? We lost as many men in ONE DAY at Iwo Jima as we have lost in Iraq in 3 YEARS. The deaths were horrific, but the sacrifice was worth the cost of those brave men's lives. However, if people like Nancy Paleolosi were around then, we would have been suing for peace on the eve of victory. And it disturbs me that so many Americans buy the arguments about Iraq and Afghanistan. Bush has not helped matters witgh his bumbling explanations, to be sure. But the fact remains that the America that knew and accepted the cost of war is long gone, and the lazy, spoiled sissies we have become is very discouraging for our future.
Why waste the troops? Don't we have ICBMs?
Heh. Probably they are quite short from lack of good nutrition their whole lives.
These are the types of conflicts where you have to use nukes to decimate the enemy.
However, they are cowed by events and retreat into the woodwork until the American people go back to sleep and it is safe to work their Treason.
If attacks from the North killed thousands of US troops even the worst in the Congress would be crying for revenge. They would have no choice any more than they did after 911 American patriotism would force their hands or they would be committing political suicide.
This does not deny that as soon as the first dangers were passed they would not emerge again to spread their poison.
And the sad thing is that we'd still need to kill another million civilians to catch up to the Chia dictator.
Actually, there are some 10,000 artillery pieces currently targeted on Seoul. How many people live in that city? I know that it's in the millions. Even if the US were to somehow get every last one of those guns, at least 1/2 would have the chance to fire at least 1 round... 5,000 artillery rounds falling on a heavily populated city isn't a good thing.
Mark
I don't see the NK army maintaining cohesion once 20 miles south of the DMZ. They will see so much comparative wealth, everywhere, amongst everything they are surrounded by, combined with all of the propaganda fed to them since birth will create psychological dissonance individually on a massive scale.
On the other note, when FR was young, so maybe 5 or 7 years ago, there was a story i remember about a US spy satellite launching, and several months later the US military analysts discovered over 100+ more underground mortar installations in NK because of increased satellite picture quality, and they feared there were hundreds more than that not yet discovered.
The S.Koreans should use 50lb. bags of rice as sandbags against the first wave, just for the psychological effect.
You said -- "In any case, we have no "intention" to attack NK but we also have no intention of allowing any dangerous military buildup by it."
The U.S. has allowed a military build-up for a long time. It doesn't seem to make any difference to the U.S.
You also asked -- "You don't really believe we have any "intention" to attack the NK regime without justification do you?"
By observing past behavior of the U.S. (to present date) -- it appears that the only "justification" that will be used will be dropping an atomic bomb on a U.S. city. Short of that -- there has only been a lot of "yapping" like a bunch of dogs...
Regards,
Star Traveler
That's a beatuiful collage. Should the USA ever be hit hard again, I will look forward to it occuring on enemy soil.
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