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2006-07-05 Southeast Asia

Burma seeks nuclear weapons alliance with N Korea

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Khan and Kimmy need visible horrible deaths to deter future repeats. Perhaps kimmy could be eaten by his slaves/workers.

Posted by 3dc 2006-07-05 00:15|| 2006-07-05 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 BURMA = like Osama > was "Our Man", or one of them, during the Cold War against the USSR. Still say America is paying the price for focusing on larger regional nations like India and Thailand, etc. - my recommendation to Dubya would be less UNO, more Western direct investment-development. Its Burma's turn.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-07-05 01:26|| 2006-07-05 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Diplomacy won't work against the proliferation/Islamization circus that is dominating world affairs. Do we not owe our children a future where their security is assured? If so then why the hell don't we take the military means to neutralize these threats? We couldn't do it under the NATO/Warsaw Pact alignment system. We can now. What the hell are we waiting for?

Posted by Anginens Threreng8133 2006-07-05 04:56|| 2006-07-05 04:56|| Front Page Top

#4 We really don't need nukes anymore. I agree Fred, cold war weapon, not really needed. We had Nukes because they could scare the hell out of the Russians and keep them in check. The weapon worked on a mass scale to insure hitting the target. Now we can remove a government with conventional missles in a mass strike.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-07-05 06:20|| 2006-07-05 06:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Once the ABM system is operational I agree ICBM nukes become rather old news. That just means more money for robotic warefare toys. :)

Posted by djohn66 2006-07-05 07:59|| 2006-07-05 07:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Some one listened.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-05 08:11|| 2006-07-05 08:11|| Front Page Top

#7
"Diplomacy won't work against the proliferation/Islamization circus that is dominating world affairs."

Worldwide, Islam IS the problem. Until a decision is made to destroy Islam and force its surviving adherents to convert or die, it will continue to be the slowly growing cancer it has always been.

Posted by Fur Trapper 2006-07-05 10:12|| 2006-07-05 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 Problem is, forcible conversion of a strongly-held religion doesn't work, it just creates martyrs. I'm afraid the only answer I see at this pass is annihilation; them or us. Hate it, but my kids don't deserve the world it looks like we're leaving them...

Posted by jay-dubya">jay-dubya 2006-07-05 11:14|| www.technochitlins.com]">[www.technochitlins.com] 2006-07-05 11:14|| Front Page Top

#9 forcible conversion of a strongly-held religion doesn't work, it just creates martyrs.

Martyrs and subversives. And cynical hypocrites of those who weren't strong believers in their former religion, but absolutely don't believe in their new one. All in all a poisonous snake taken to the bosom. The Catholic Church in Spain discovered this to their sorrow post-1492, when the Jews and the Moors were given the choice to convert or be expelled. The decendents of those are stilled called Marranos, and in some places still not wholly trusted, as I've been told. Families that to this day still take a pair of ancient silver candlesticks out of hiding before Friday night dinners, and for some reason don't eat bread during Easter week...

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-05 17:07|| 2006-07-05 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10
"I'm afraid the only answer I see at this pass is annihilation..."

Same here, and it works for me. Actually, I'm fairly certain that's the choice they would make as well. So, I guess it works for them too!

Win/Win all around. Let's get started.

Posted by Fur Trapper 2006-07-05 23:35|| 2006-07-05 23:35|| Front Page Top

#11 You mean, like actually exterminating people? What sort of annihilation are you talking about?

Posted by Rafael 2006-07-05 23:39|| 2006-07-05 23:39|| Front Page Top

#12 "But it would be the first time Burma has been formally censured by the Security Council."

Says a lot.

Posted by Elmash Phaitch4207 2006-07-05 23:48|| 2006-07-05 23:48|| Front Page Top

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