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2008-02-06 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Fred 2008-02-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 STRATEGYPAGE > STRATEGIC WEAPONS - HOW NORTH KOREA COPES The NOKOR masses are still starving, the countryside remains mostly in the dark 24-7-365, BUT LIGHTS, WAGES ARE ALWAYS AT THE LOCAL MISSLE FACTORY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-02-06 01:21|| 2008-02-06 01:21|| Front Page Top

#2 When I was a kid, the suggestion that India would be providing food aid to other countries would have been absolutely ludicrous. If there have been any great men in the last half-century, Norman Borlaug stands among them.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-02-06 08:27|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-02-06 08:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Mitch, my sentiments exactly. One of the few people who truly deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. (Along with Mother Teresa)

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2008-02-06 11:32|| 2008-02-06 11:32|| Front Page Top

#4 As a child I grew up in India in a dirt-poor farming village that had a mission-run farm that was a test bed for Green Revolution techniques. My parents could remember active local famines earlier in their careers, but none after the farm took hold and others began applying the same techniques, despite more than one missed/late monsoon.

Norman Borlaug deserves more rewards than this world could have given him.

Posted by xbalanke 2008-02-06 12:50|| 2008-02-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#5 This seems a bad idea...

while it is all well and good to feed the starving, what they are really doing is alwowing the NorK military to continue to pillage the economy without regard. if the people did in fact starve, the NorKs would have to divert effort to that front an dthier house of cards military would have to face reality and real and actual progress on other issues might (probably not) occur.

Reagan didn't win the cold war by shipping free wheat to the Russians (note to Jimmah... feeding the Russians made them able to buy more missiles and send extra weapons to Nicaragua - come to think of it that may have been your plan all along)

peace via accommodation never works... it delays and makes more costly the eventual war.

Posted by Abu do you love 2008-02-06 12:53|| 2008-02-06 12:53|| Front Page Top

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