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Time to get tough with North Korea by Lawrence Solomon of Canada's conservative National Post newspaper. For two decades, American Presidents since President Clinton have played appeasement card and now North Korea is within a few months of being able to hit the mainland United States with a nuclear warhead. What if South Korea and Japan as well as Taiwan and maybe even the Philippines are allowed to go nuclear to pressure the Hawks in China to give up on North Korea and maybe possibly cause a coup if North Korea didn't back off?
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Who the heck knows what to do with NK?
Almost any military action risks the shelling of Seoul including the American soldiers and civilians there. We can pressure China but I think China is using NK to pressure us. We can impose more international sanctions but if China doesn't go along they won't be very effective. We could (and have) do something covert but NK has spread their targets out pretty widely so it's unlikely to wipe out the whole threat and the NK regime has a history of reacting irrationally.
It's easy to call people weak sisters or appeasers but what action would you recommend and are you willing to take the blow back?
Almost any military action risks the shelling of Seoul including the American soldiers and civilians there. We can pressure China but I think China is using NK to pressure us. We can impose more international sanctions but if China doesn't go along they won't be very effective. We could (and have) do something covert but NK has spread their targets out pretty widely so it's unlikely to wipe out the whole threat and the NK regime has a history of reacting irrationally.
It's easy to call people weak sisters or appeasers but what action would you recommend and are you willing to take the blow back?
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LTC (Join to see)
Yes it's a conundrum and a Big Catch 22 and after reading this article this morning I thought let's Bounce It Off rallypoint.
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SSG Edward Tilton
I was checking Google Earth and there are still guns in our old bunkers. must be ROK
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The sad truth is that we make our own problems more often than not. The Korean War never would have happened if Truman and his Scty of State hadn't announced to the world that the US wouldn't fight to preserve South Korean independence. Hitler would never have gotten past the German border if England and France had stood up to him rather than appeased him. North Korea wouldn't now be threatening US with nuclear holocaust if President Clinton hadn't set the wheels of appeasement in motion. ISIS wouldn't even exist had President Obama allowed US forces to remain in Iraq to maintain the hard won peace there. I could go on and on...
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LTC (Join to see)
Ashley jacket goes further than that believe it or not for General singlaub in his book hazardous Duty he said that General Marshall now secretary Marshall under Truman didn't like Chiang Kai-shek and all those divisions that were trained up to defeat the Japanese ended up fighting the Communists but they were cut off from our supply and ammunition yet the Russians gave the Communist Chinese all the captured artillery and ammunition from the Japanese after the surrender. So we screwed ourselves going back because General singlaub was in China in 1947 and 48 and saw it happen.
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LTC (Join to see)
Secretary of State George Marshall had a hard-on for Chiang Kai-shek and he purposely screw them over because Chiang Kai-shek was asking for more support and Marshall didn't give it to him. General singlaub was an Intel officer he worked for the OSS and he was there when the Nationalist Chinese were slowly losing to read Chinese horses that were reinforced by Russia, I got this book for cheap and it's been so indispensable talking about what's happening today. I know he was involved with the ran Contra Scandal but that's another era and that's the difference fight under Reagan.
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Taiwan, possibly, Japan is kinda gun-shy about nukes (understandably), Philippines? Not in this century.
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LTC (Join to see)
I agree not like this Crook in the Philippines now this guy kills off all the low-level drug dealers but yet he allows the high-level Chinese drug dealer to be living the life of Riley and able to do rat videos and make the Philippine top 40. When I was at the cgsoc two years ago a philippine-american born in the Philippines this major was so pissed off that this new president was was having this prisoner held and not executed but executing Other Drug criminals so you kind of wonder if this guy is being bought off by China. He's known to take a lot of bribes and payoffs. So I agree with you
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Sgt Wayne Wood
I was there running around under Fernand Marcos & martial law... a different world indeed from when i went back later post-Marcos
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