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Post by agito on Nov 25, 2010 18:26:13 GMT -6
Reading the articles about north korea premeditating their most recent attack, and can't help but feel the corporatocracy feels military action with Korea is in order. thinking japanese, taiwanese or even south korean news sources would be more reliable than here.
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Post by waltc on Nov 26, 2010 20:32:06 GMT -6
Agreed, but the U.S. military high command is just insane enough to go to war with NK even though our forces over there are all within artillery range and the Army component stripped of most of it's equipment for Central Asia.
And like 9/11 was to the GOP a a war with NK is what Obama and the Dems need now as well. With a full on bloody war killing thirty thousand Americans within 48 hours, it would be just the thing to galvanize public support for him and his buddies and take the attention off the economy.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Nov 27, 2010 2:51:52 GMT -6
And like 9/11 was to the GOP a a war with NK is what Obama and the Dems need now as well. With a full on bloody war killing thirty thousand Americans within 48 hours, it would be just the thing to galvanize public support for him and his buddies and take the attention off the economy. Interesting idea. I really hadn't thought of that. Obama's already doing everything humanly possible to distract us from the economy. War with North Korea would be a real bonanza for him.
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Post by waltc on Nov 27, 2010 12:48:13 GMT -6
I sincerely hope I'm wrong though, because a war would mean the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Korean civilians as well as American troops.
Ain't worth it in my books.
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Post by fredorbob on Nov 28, 2010 1:03:21 GMT -6
It would kill the economy too, push it into the abyss. The political cliche "war improves the economy" would be taken literally by the brain dead politicians and brain dead people who voted for them.
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Nov 28, 2010 4:12:28 GMT -6
A war in Korea with US involvement would completely flatten our military. Home-side troops would have to be sent, leaving even fewer at home to actually defend this country from an attack of any kind.
What does the Obama administration think is going to happen in this country when there is no military left stateside to protect it from a domestic, home-grown threat?
It's something the Obama plutocracy should seriously consider.
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Post by agito on Dec 3, 2010 22:23:30 GMT -6
I think you guys are reading the logistics of a korean war the wrong way. With ground forces tied up in afriqanisFUCkistan, military action would be more along the lines of a clinton-esque, bosnia-like air and sea campaign. There would probably be some losses initially to the navy, but it would quickly devolve into air-campaign with little resistance left. The problem is whether or not America would be stupid enough to try to put ground troops inside the border, or if they would be smart enough to hand that duty of to A) A korean/japanese/taiwanese collaboration OR (and much more likely even if diplomatically ambitious) B) let the chinese have em, they can directly control another province under the auspices of "rescuing" the nation, and putting kim jong ill out of power.
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