Posted on 12/14/2010 12:15:24 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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Bah.
Getting a UN Security Council resolution authorizing force will not happen. Call Morty and make book on it.
If we wanted to impress upon the Norks that we’re serious, we’d let it “slip” that we’ve moved two boomers into the area so close that we could hit them with a depressed trajectory shot in minutes. Move a few attack subs into the area to insure their navy could be bottomed quickly if we want.
And then... don’t say a thing in public. Deny any questions about these movements. Wave a hand, dismiss it as press fantasy. And whatever we do, we do NOT go to the UN to complain or explain.
These morons we now seem to install in government need to re-learn TR’s dictum: Speak softly, carry a big stick.
Of course, this is all fantasy, what with the Ivy Leaguers in power. I’m sure we’ll go to the UN and talk, talk, talk, and talk some more. Blah, blah, blah. More jobs for ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey doodle.
The Kenyan won’t do it.
Here's my war-monger take: Pull our Troops out and let South Korea deal it, until the Norks hit them too hard and we send some Trident-based nukes over and put out the last of their lights as seen from satellites. Since that won't happen, how about massive air-bombing and cruise missles?
I'm so sick of this collateral damage wussification (remember Dresdan?). I would rather their children die than ours or our Allies. I'm done with these wanna be nuke a-holes. Just friggin kill them now while we have the upper hand.
Actually, it is about this time that some NK sub should go missing.
That would certainly work, but it is a direct escalation if evidence comes up “how” it “went missing.”
What we need is a way to put one of their subs on the bottom with nothing being communicated or coming to the top. A pretty tall order as I understand it.
Not gonna happen with the current strain on US forces... plus, the South Koreans have long been trying to reduce the presence of US forces in their country.
So why should we put our troops into a country that doesn’t want them?
It’s been abundantly clear for many, many years that the only American troop presence that will stop North Korean provocation is an American troop presence in Pyongyang.
That, however, is something we are unlikely to see any time soon.
I’m kind of in agreement...just pull our guys out. In fact, if you wanted to humiliate the NK crowd...just say that they weren’t really a threat to anyone and it was a waste of time to stay there.
Give the South a couple of nukes, pull our boys out and let Korea defend itself.
Tell China to stay out of it.
Only THEN will they know we are "serious".
I'm talking true hardball here.
Considering nothing else has worked to-date.
No. Just no.
Now is not the time because of the recent NK actions. But I don’t think having a bunch of American troops hostage to the actions of NK is a good idea and would withdraw them.
SK is a wealthy, advanced nation that can afford it’s own defense. I would sell them weaponry and support them with air and naval assets in the event of a war. But American troops on the ground just make it easy for the SK’s not to have a sufficient defense capability themselves.
This will get really dangerous not because we are too tough but we will soon show sign of wavering, giving wrong signal to NK's father and son duo, along with Chicom ruling elites, that one more big push will completely crack our resolve for sustained stand-off.
In the end, we will pay for not being steadfast enough.
“U.S. expert calls for increasing American troop presence in S. Korea to stop NK provocations”
That will work about as well as raising taxes on cigarettes to get people to stop smoking.
We’ve been there since 1950.
If the ROK troops can’t defend themselves now, when will they ?
Victor Cha has been calling for an increased US troop presence in SK for the last week or so. He wrote a piece last week called Strategic Logic on the Korean Peninsula Headed Toward War
http://cogitasia.com/2010/12/07/strategic-logic-on-the-korean-peninsula-headed-towardwar/
Interesting that the Korean press is now picking up on the story.
PS Last night TBS TV showed a great docu-drama, on the Korean Airlines midair bombing (1988) performed by NK female agent Kim Hyong Hee, Japanese voice-over of a South Korean drama it seems.
Probably the first person to be clubbed to death by angry mob when NK regime falls.
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