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2013-03-08 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. 'Fully Capable' of Defending against N. Korea Threat

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 I'm certain it is, but my Maha-Rushian questionne' du jour is whether the TAIWAN GOVT. + US is ready iff the Motherly PLA Airborne, etc. decide to drop in on Taiwan in massive conventional first-strike + follow-on???

Lest we fergit, CHINA = MASSIVE OR PROHIBITIVE PLA CASUALTIES, ETC. IS "MEH" = ALREADY
"FACTORED IN" when it comes to finally having DE FACTO sovereign or military control of Taiwan.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-08 00:07|| 2013-03-08 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 "I can tell you that the United States is fully capable of defending against any North Korean ballistic missile attack," said White House front man Jay Carney.

Wasn't a Carney the guy that dragged the Rubes into the freakshow at the circus?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-08 00:10|| 2013-03-08 00:10|| Front Page Top

#3 FREEREPUBLIC > [Yonhap News[ NORTH KOREA GENERAL SAYS PYONGYANG HAS NUCLEAR-TIPPED ICBMS ON STANDBY.

I can't seem to get ordinary Net access this afternoon to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean News Blogs irregardless of search engine - I could be wrong, BUT IT WOULD APPEAR THAT MILITARY? NEWS CONTROL/CENSORSHIP IS NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-08 00:46|| 2013-03-08 00:46|| Front Page Top

#4 BREAKING NEWS > SOUTH KOREA: "IFF DPRK ATTACKS WID NUCLEAR WEAPONS, THE KIM JONG-UN REGIME WILL BECOME EXTINCT".

Keep your fingers crossed, + crossed H-A-R-D that the inter-Korean Tasty Kimchee [ + Diaoyus/Senkakus] can still be saved.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-03-08 00:56|| 2013-03-08 00:56|| Front Page Top

#5 I notice there is no mention of retaliation.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-03-08 03:47|| 2013-03-08 03:47|| Front Page Top

#6 do we currently have AEGIS ships near NKor?

if we do, are they operational?

will Obama bring them home as an anti sequester gimmick?

Posted by lord garth 2013-03-08 07:03|| 2013-03-08 07:03|| Front Page Top

#7 An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. - Napoleon

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-08 08:18|| 2013-03-08 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 The spring Kimchee, Joe.

Posted by Skidmark 2013-03-08 09:23|| 2013-03-08 09:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Defend?

I think we should ATTACK, just carpet bomb the crap out of the presidential compound and the suburbs where the elites and the military nobility live and then sit back and watch what happens.

You cut the head off this mess and the peasants would be more than willing to accept another form of government. I also seriously doubt if ALL of the military are raring to go to preserve the atrocities of the government.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-08 12:40|| 2013-03-08 12:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Lest we forget, it was the UN that forbid us from bombing or attacking Manchuria when the ChiComs had 1.5 million guys camping in the freaking open along the Yalu River. We could have ended all of this crap in 1950 if Truman and the UN had the stomach to put an end to it right then. We're still fighting the Korean War...not slapping down China in 50 gave them carte blanche to do what ever they wanted in Asia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, the crap in Burma ALL was an off shoot of our faint hearted actions in Korea.

Two divisions? we should have brought the entire weight of the world down on the Norks in 50 and let everyone know we were not ever going to mess around with their behavior.

Same for today, Clinton's sissiness with terrorism has put us in the constant brush fire fighting we do today. We are up to our butt in all of this because we enable it when we do not use our POWER. These people only respect POWER.

And if we have a nuke attack from Iran, blame Nork, if we have one from Nork, you can thank the IAEA's limp-dicked approach to ending nuclear proliferation.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-08 12:48|| 2013-03-08 12:48|| Front Page Top

#11 It's always this way, Bill Clinton.

Look at FDR's limp wristed approach to Hitler in the 1930's. Everybody knew that Hitler was violating the treaties that ended WWI but nobody (except Churchill) said anything about it. So instead of slapping Hitler down in 1933 or '34 we waited until it became WWII, the Russian front, Pearl Harbor and the Holocaust. We never seem to learn that people like Pudgy and his Chinese puppet masters never stop pushing until somebody pushes back. The danger now is that we have waited too long, the Chinese have gotten stronger and we have gotten weaker.

Yesterday I suggested that we nuke Pudgy. Maybe that's rash. Maybe carpet bombing Pyongyang and the NORK nuke sites would be better. I'll leave that for the generals. But I doubt that our current POTUS has the gravitas or the international support to pull off such an attack. Almost certainly he lacks the will. This is very dangerous and only goes to show what a mistake the American people made when they elected Obama.

Sanctions won't work. They never have. No matter what they say in the UN the Chinese will continue to support their little lap dog.

I do believe it is time to demonstrate to the NORKS and the Chinese that we will push back when they've gone too far and I believe they have now gone too far. For a little prick like Pudgy to threaten my country with a nuclear attack is going too far. If he was waving a pistol around on a street and making statements like that I would certainly want to shoot him first instead of attempting to find out whether or not his pistol was loaded. Why take chances? It is time to smack him back. It won't get any easier if we wait.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-03-08 14:57|| 2013-03-08 14:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Makes me think of this...

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2013-03-08 15:29|| 2013-03-08 15:29|| Front Page Top

#13 Yosemite Sam is the narciso of Rantburg.

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