Posted on 04/05/2013 5:28:06 PM PDT by Former Proud Canadian
Its a communist state, there are no real jobs as we know then in the country outside the Kaesong Industrial Area
NK has invested in heavily fortified positions for key artillery units in order to prevent just such a first strike. It would take significantly more ordinance than you’d expect if you want to destroy those guns prior to them being moved to firing positions.
Not anymore.
They think we are starving and we are warmongering out of jealousy
No we are talking about the incompetent conflicting policies coming from an administration that was totally clueless about it goals in Korea. An administration that only a year before the war that had withdrawn all US forces from S. Korea and announced to the world that Korea was outside “its’ area of influence”. Truman practically invited the invasion.
Patton and MacArthur both “fired” for telling the truth. Our generals have learned not to do that any more. I do not think we are better or safer with our new breed of PC officers.
Yes..they both knew full well the evil of communism and saw the murderous side of it. Now we have even revisionist judgers here on this site trying to rewrite the reality of MacArthur! oh boy...
Much attention focused on Guam. Couldn’t they just as easily strike Alaska? Oil...
Wow! I had no idea it would do a roll.
Thanks.
Concur about the effectiveness of our Silent Service. Those boys are Sierra Hotel and in the $hit right now.
I would certainly hope the CIA has someone on the payroll to remove this little tyrant in such a way.
Hell, there was more than just one reporter there when we hit the beach. Musta been 20.
Still...I just truly pray some day God will remove them and free the people....maybe with technology creeping into the country...and those who have left sneaking back in ...in time and with the sanctions the people might turn against this whole crazy scenario....it's pretty obvious nations aren't willing to do more than the status quo.
Makes ya wonder why this hasn’t been done long before. And or at least take out their nuke systems.
I think too many, who could make a difference, like the country just as it has been and is.
You’d be quite “underestimative” about that. The USS Ohio operates regularly out of Bangor and it alone could re-configure NKor. But the Ohio has a whole quiver full of friends, both boomers and fast attacks with vert-tubes that also operate from Puget Sound and Pearl. Then don’t forget the USS Nimitz is on its way and it has underwater friends who can bite if called upon by the Kenyan.
Sometimes we talk “BS” in the open just to lay it on thick. The radio that came from might have been parked on the ground. But even talking BS has a way of being revealing——the best way to cover is by constant chatter some of which might actually mean something.
“Makes ya wonder why this hasn’t been done long before. And or at least take out their nuke systems.
I think too many, who could make a difference, like the country just as it has been and is.”
Taking out a man is a lot easier than taking out a system of weapon or a weapons development program(which is indeed a whole lot of people).
If we wanted to take out north Korea’s weapons we would have to call their bluff and start bombing.
Well of course it’s easier...but then why has this not been done along the way.....
I understand all the dynamics of other nations involved with N.Korea...the boundary lines and who stands to gain or loose....my point is it does seem all nations are perfectly content to let things happen as they are with the people of Korea...likely because the N.Koreans don’t know anything different.
Needless saying N.Korea is about the most bizarre and strangest of nations...
Hey if you've already decided then I wont argue.
All I got are newspaper reports, eyewitness accounts, and historical analysis about why Macarthur didn't expect and chose to not prepare for China's invasion of Korea. Not only that, how he was so oblivious to the seriousness of the October catastrophe afterward that he proceeded to announce that the boys would be home by Christmas.
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