Posted on 03/30/2013 3:41:20 PM PDT by Arthurio
:Little barry bastard boy live on magic thinking from the moment he wakes up until he passes out at night. He is too stupid to realize the actual peril because he is not nor ever will be a true leader. He is a community organizer ... read community agitator. He is educated, trained, and hell-bent to make trouble not deal with it. He is the most dangerous pResident this dying Republic has ever had, way more dangerous than the worst feckless one you can think of, even Carter.
I’ve never dismissed NK as a non threat. And EMP is just one of the reasons. We very well may have to tangle with them. Points to ponder,
1.They have a huge army.
2.They have,maybe hundreds of thousands of artillery.
3. They do have nuclear weapons,and we don’t know how much of that kind of stuff they may have gotten from the Chinese and Russia.What if they got missiles capable of reaching us from the Russians? Can we be sure they haven’t, either from Russian military brass, or the Russian gangsters?
4. And last, but certainly not the least is motivation. They have a new, young leader. He knows how dictators rise and fall, and cares nothing about anyone but himself.And this is an indication that sanctions have been working, they are creating desperation among his people. Far better to blown away by the enemy while fighting than to be hanged by your own.So, yes, they are crazy enough to do it.
Why be realistic when you can fear monger and be a drama queen?
Doc,
It would still be suicide by cop. Wouldn’t take long for military command to find out what happened. They have tempest hardened communications. The Norks would be reduced to radioactive pumice in a matter of hours with no remedy or recourse.
Yes, there would be chaos here at home for many months, until the grid could be restored, etc.
But the Norks would have been completely cratered.
What would we do if NK or Iran tells us that a nuclear weapon has been smuggled into a large American city, and that we must meet their list of demands?
Imagine the public reaction if the president refused to negotiate.
Until recently, I never looked at them as other than a 3rd tier threat; that’s now changed. They just moved-up a noych or two.
I agree completely. But it would certainly serve the strategic goals of China (and some would assert Russia also) so China might be quietly goading them along even though the obvious outcome is that NORK would be gone. That too might serve China’s goals by removing a chronic thorn in their side.
What terrifies the Chinese most of all is millions of Nork refugees pouring over their border.
I think if China sensed that the Norks were about to truly go off the deep end, they would intervene and move in.
> the obvious outcome is that NORK would be gone. That too
> might serve China’s goals by removing a chronic thorn in
> their side.
Indeed.
They’d be getting two birds with one stone.
And if the Ayatoilets in Iran are implicated, the Russians would be ridding themselves of a thorn in their side.
I guess from their perspective, it’s a win-win-win.
Especially after our own Ayatoilet Hussein 0bamao finsihes destroying our economy and thereby any usefulness we might have had for the ChiComs or Russians.
me too
I think if China sensed that the Norks were about to truly go off the deep end, they would intervene and move in.
Letting the NORKs hit us with and EMP, knocking us out as a superpower presence in Southeast Asia (our military would have to come home to deal with the consequences) while we nuke the NORKs (we would maintain that ability even after a successful EMP attack) would kill two birds with one stone for China. They achieve one of their strategic goals with plausible deniability of any involvement, the best possible outcome in asymmetric warfare, while the NORK refugee problem would mostly cease to exist.
I'm of the opinion that this has been Obama's mission all along. Destroy our economy and gut our military in preparation for a "surprise" nuclear attack (in this case, NORK EMP) that completely removes the USA from geopolitical calculations.
Or, if they claim to have two smuggled in and actually light one off. At that point it wouldn’t matter much if they even had the second one.
This would all be a lot easier to take if had a real president.
Similar to what the Communists, er, Socialist, Liberals, Unions or whatever they call themselves, do during election time here in the US of A.......create and stoke hatred and it WORKS!!!
We ought to cut a deal with China. We’ll keep our troops south of the 38th parallel if they intervene and stop this loon.
Firstly, the “public” will never know. Secondly, and because of the first point, they will have to light off two nukes in two cities before gaining an earpiece to their demands. Yet, the gaining of an ear almost certainly tips off the return address.
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