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America’s Grim Options on North Korea
Pajamas Media ^ | November 28, 2010 | John Parker

Posted on 11/28/2010 6:23:35 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/28/2010 6:23:35 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Time to thank Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter for North Korea having nukes. They literally could not have done it without them.


2 posted on 11/28/2010 6:48:23 AM PST by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: Kaslin
Sheesh. Pipe Dream.

Good luck on implementing any of these above.

Three words are appropriate here in this sense are appropriate.

Barack.

Hussein.

OBAMA.

3 posted on 11/28/2010 6:49:13 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (There is a lot "GOING DOWN" these days. But don't forget the Senate AMNESTY PUSH for next MONDAY!!!)
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To: pnh102

Clintoon STILL needs to do the perpwalk for allowing Loral to sell the nuclear guidance technology to the chicoms-!! That is what impeachment SHOULD have been about-!!


4 posted on 11/28/2010 6:52:35 AM PST by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: pnh102
No doubt about it.

You also left out one other key appeaser (in the second half in his second term onward, with considerable irresponsible damage in this regard).

George. W. Bush

Of course, much of that "credit" goes to the most reprehensible Condoleeza Rice, and career State Department wonk (who served under both Bush and Obama) Christopher Hill, two of the biggest idiots to come down the pike. Obama will only considerably worsen the situation--at an alarming rate I might add.

5 posted on 11/28/2010 6:57:14 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo (There is a lot "GOING DOWN" these days. But don't forget the Senate AMNESTY PUSH for next MONDAY!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

This really is what has to be done. But I doubt Obama has the brains, backbone, or fortitude to do it. SecState Clinton lacks the strength or reputation to do it either. (Dr Kissinger might, though.) War is the most probable outcome sooner or later.


6 posted on 11/28/2010 7:19:42 AM PST by Rapscallion (Will history judge that Obama and Soros destroyed our America?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Three words are appropriate here in this sense are appropriate.

Barack.

Hussein.

OBAMA.

Yeah, Team Obama is already calling for "Diplomacy" to deal with falling artillery shells and unprovoked attacks. Well, we know how any "Diplomacy" would look...


7 posted on 11/28/2010 8:04:05 AM PST by Bon mots ("Anything you say, can and will be construed as racist...")
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Three words are appropriate here in this sense are appropriate.

Barack.

Hussein.

OBAMA.

Yeah, Team Obama is already calling for "Diplomacy" to deal with falling artillery shells and unprovoked attacks. Well, we know how any "Diplomacy" would look...


8 posted on 11/28/2010 8:06:22 AM PST by Bon mots ("Anything you say, can and will be construed as racist...")
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Sorry for the double post... I got a "503 Service Unavailable" screen so hit <> again. FR is experiencing hiccups today.
9 posted on 11/28/2010 8:07:21 AM PST by Bon mots ("Anything you say, can and will be construed as racist...")
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To: Kaslin
Beijing knows this, which is why its nuclear missiles function only as a deterrent force; if a nuclear exchange did take place at current warhead levels

I START-ed to say something about this, but I guess it wasn't pertinent. /s

10 posted on 11/28/2010 8:46:07 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The RINOcrat Party is still in charge. There has never been a conservative American government.)
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To: Kaslin

Grim reading, and I think the author is right. What’s required to settle this once and for all is the strongest possible actions against the North, and real sanctions on the Chinese to bring down the Kim Dynasty.

I also believe that we will either be pulled directly into a new Korean war one way or another. Either we act preemptively as the author suggests, or we wait until North Korea attacks the South and probably Japan as well. No matter what, there will be numerous civilian deaths involved and once the Kim Dynasty goes down in flames there is no telling how bad of a humanitarian disaster will ensure on the entire peninsula.

But given the state of American foreign policy these days, there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that the US will do anything of significance to preempt anything. Premier Hussein has already called for restraint on both sides and unless NoKo takes a shot at one of our planes or ships, this will continue to simmer until America is placated yet again, and our forces depart the area.


11 posted on 11/28/2010 9:01:37 AM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts!!)
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Sadly, I’m afraid South Korea is about to be over run. The North will threaten to use nukes, the South will ask for help and obama will turn them down. The South will have no choice but to surrender. Then China takes Taiwan.


12 posted on 11/28/2010 9:42:04 AM PST by Terry Mross
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To: Bean Counter

Sadly, I’m afraid South Korea is about to be over run. The North will threaten to use nukes, the South will ask for help and obama will turn them down. The South will have no choice but to surrender. Then China takes Taiwan.


13 posted on 11/28/2010 9:42:12 AM PST by Terry Mross
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To: Bean Counter

Sadly, I’m afraid South Korea is about to be over run. The North will threaten to use nukes, the South will ask for help and obama will turn them down. The South will have no choice but to surrender. Then China takes Taiwan.


14 posted on 11/28/2010 9:42:18 AM PST by Terry Mross
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To: pnh102

nuking wouldn’t be so grim. But I guess that’s not an option.


15 posted on 11/28/2010 12:20:08 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (every bad idea once seemed good to someone.)
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The North will threaten to use nukes, the South will ask for help and obama will turn them down. The South will have no choice but to surrender. Then China takes Taiwan.

Take two and then a nice nap.

16 posted on 11/28/2010 12:21:22 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (every bad idea once seemed good to someone.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Well, I think that we will never have enough Korean women walking around in drab Grey scrubs to enhance their figures and great beauty.
17 posted on 11/28/2010 12:26:08 PM PST by Radix ("..Democrats are holding a meeting today to decide whether to overturn the results of the election.")
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To: Kaslin

Non-nuclear decapitation would be the policy of a sane US government.

Tomorrow, if possible.


18 posted on 11/28/2010 12:29:22 PM PST by headsonpikes (Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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To: Kaslin
In that article I was struck by Parker's seeming lack of concern of what South Korea might think of any of those actions. The fact of the matter is that South Korea has the most to lose in all this. The U.S. at this point should limit itself to supporting what South Korea feels that it needs to do in response to North Korea's provocation and not dictate a response to them.
19 posted on 11/28/2010 12:40:15 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Kaslin; All

I’m inclined to see something more devious in all of this. China is going to stay on the sideline and only do token things to discourage North Korea. However, when North Korea attacks, and it is a real possibility they will, then China will stay conveinently neutral with some minor posturing.

The U.S. will be obligated, rightfully so, to send troops to shore up South Korea....a substantial force. With us already deep with commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will be compleltely engaged with no reserves to commit elsewhere.

China will then use the opportunity to invade and conquer Taiwan....which is what they really want. We will be in no position to prevent it.

Anyway, that is my “analysis.”


20 posted on 11/28/2010 1:18:47 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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