Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 23, 2003 Jesus fucking Christ, wake up. North Korea is easily more dangerous than Iraq. How hard is it to grasp this? No, they don't have missiles capable of hitting the US. But get this, they don't need to. They can destroy Seoul with the conventional artillery they have based along the Korean border alone. North Korea can hit all of the South as well as Japan with both nuclear and chemical weapons. They have a big army, hardly an efficient one, but big enough to ensure that there would be US casualties should they try and take them on. Just think for a second what happens to the world economy if Seoul and Tokyo get taken out and then try and claim that Iraq is more dangerous then North Korea. Why do you think Bush has strongly stressed that he wants to sort North Korea out with diplomacy? Its because he knows that it can't be engaged militarily without the massive risk of Asia becoming totally destabilised. N. Korea is more irritating --- but they are, at best, a joke. They can't feed their own people --- I'm less than concerned about their statements. They want us to give them money again. That's not to say we shouldn't punk them out when Iraq is finished. As for Seoul --- a growing contingency of S. Koreans want to normalize relations with the North. I say we let them --- they cannot imagine how bad things are there. When Germay reunited, W. Germany hasd a problem dealing with E. Germans who made, on average, 1/4 what they made. N.Koreans make, roughly, 1/20th what S. Koreans make. Re-uniting would kill BOTH countries. And the N. Korean army is about as efficient as the Iraqi army. They will turn on the leadership in a moment --- given the chance. And if N. Korea legitimately threatens S. Korea or Japan, China would annihilate them before we could. -=Mike --- who thinks that when people have to go to CHINA for asylum, your country is f'd up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 23, 2003 Welcome back Mike. Hope this isn't just a one time thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 23, 2003 Welcome back Mike. Hope this isn't just a one time thing. I WISH it was only a one-time thing --- but it probably isn't. -=Mike --- who if I'm not here, it means my personal life is going well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cawthon777 0 Report post Posted February 23, 2003 -=Mike --- who if I'm not here, it means my personal life is going well That's classic. Might have to borrow it from time to time. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 23, 2003 I WISH it was only a one-time thing --- but it probably isn't. -=Mike --- who if I'm not here, it means my personal life is going well Sorry about everything. That was a great line though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted February 23, 2003 But, let's face one FACT: Every "famine" in recent history was caused by the gov't of the country, not "natural causes"... Potato Blight. Not exactly recent, but still an exception. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 23, 2003 But, let's face one FACT: Every "famine" in recent history was caused by the gov't of the country, not "natural causes"... Potato Blight. Not exactly recent, but still an exception. I was actually thinking of the Irish potato famine when I said natural causes. But the starvation in Africa and N. Korea are because the governments refuse to distribute the food to the people --- not because the food isn't there. -=Mike -- Fortunately, I don't much like potatoes Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JMA Report post Posted February 23, 2003 I wonder which political philosophy Marney held... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DrTom Report post Posted February 23, 2003 Good to see you back, Mike, and it's also good to see that whatever account problems you were having have been cleared up. Sorry about the girl, but that sounds like a dreadfully bad scenario, so it's probably for the best that you're out of it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 24, 2003 I wonder which political philosophy Marney held... Marney was very pro military. But she was also very much pro-choice, and for gay rights. She wasn't has conservative leaning has some people think. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest TheMikeSC Report post Posted February 24, 2003 Good to see you back, Mike, and it's also good to see that whatever account problems you were having have been cleared up. Sorry about the girl, but that sounds like a dreadfully bad scenario, so it's probably for the best that you're out of it. Oh, I'm moving on nicely. Heck, I'm on all the time to prevent her from calling me, to be honest. -=Mike --- and, yes, my rampant account problems here SEEM to be resolved. ...Now, should I do a recap of Starrcades 1983 and 1984, since I've not seen a recap of either show anywhere on the internet and I happen to have copies of both of them? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JMA Report post Posted February 24, 2003 Marney was very pro military. But she was also very much pro-choice, and for gay rights. She wasn't has conservative leaning has some people think. Yeah. I think she was more of a social liberal but a fiscal and military/foreign policy conservative. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Vern Gagne Report post Posted February 24, 2003 That sounds about right. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
