The time for O’s mettle test is here: North Korea prepares for war
Please pick up the red courtesy phone (Photoshop credit: Redhotphones.com)
Joe Biden said our unseasoned Dear Leader would soon be tested. The time is here and now. North Korea tonight has abandoned a 1953 ceasefire and is preparing the peninsula for war in the wake of South Korea’s decision to side with an anti-proliferation coalition led by the U.S.
Wonder if that red phone woke him and Hillary up yet. Brrrrrr–ing. Brrrr–ing:
North Korea’s military says it considers South Korea’s participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.
The communist North’s military said in a statement Wednesday that it will respond with “immediate, strong military measures” if the South actually stops and searches any North Korean ships under the Proliferation Security Initiative.
The statement, carried by the North’s Korean Central News Agency, said North Korea no longer considers itself bound by the armistice that ended the Korean War, as a protest over the South’s participation.
Flashback October 2008:
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”
Flashback February 2008:
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I think this is normally called a declaration of war…
I remember the murder of several Americans in 1976. It made the headlines in the European edition of “Stars & Stripes.” I thought we might find ourselves at war again. This is a bit worse.
The people north of the 38th parallel are lunatics. And we have a pair of idiots in the White House and Number One Observatory Circle!
At this rate I may not have to worry about the mess we are leaving my grandchildren. They may never get a chance to be born!
I keep listening for any announcement of an alert, or a task force being deployed…some damn thing that would put the NK on notice that they were facing a RESPONSE.
Nothing. A little high rhetoric. Nothing.
No, Ragspierre, don’t worry. They are all “gravely concerned!”
I suspect our “Dear Leader” has ordered the 2nd Infantry Division to DO NOTHING until the idiots at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can change their undergarments and pants and stop hyperventilating!
Hitchens is saying that we may just have to look over the fence and say, “OK, I dare you”.
True. We just can’t let this fool to keep pushing the world around, moving closer and closer to WMD…or more WMD.
The problem with looking over the fence and saying “I dare you” now is of course more dangerous that it would have been before Memorial Day. We didn’t know Kim was about to do this. That means he had more fissile material than we thought. That means he probably has enough material to have made “dirty bombs” for artillery and I think North Korea has one of the largest artillery forces in the world. And much of it is within range of Seoul.
I wonder if the clowns at 1600 Penn Avenue realize just how dangerous this is now? Of course, it is NOT all Obama’s fault. Bush and Clinton share a huge portion of this blame.
RobM1981 said:
I was there recently, the only Patriots I saw were at Osan, about 50 miles south of Seoul. It may be that Seoul is too close to the DMZ to effectively target an incoming hostile missile/rocket.
lgm said: Something mindless and stupid.
The problem is that Seoul is so close to the DMZ that arty can level the place. We are talking thousands of NoKo Arty tubes in range. By the time you start your counter battery fire there won’t be a lot left of the place to protect. It will be even worse if they use NBC shells…
This is a good time to cancel those vacation plans in Korea.
Anybody know what I Corps HQ in Oregon is doing?
To my point of view, the projection of ambiguity is the most dangerous thing a person or nation can do in the face of belligerence.
Massed artillery is REAL susceptible to modern weapons systems, though I have no experience in the ground in Korea to know what the ground looks like.
Sub-munitions are very effective to stuff in the open and on the move but the NoKo nuts have had decades to harden their firing positions. Sure, we can start to take out their tubes after they open fire. The question that Seoul residents will be asking is “will we finish before or after the city is turned into an ash heap?”
And remember that a lot of the air wings designated to deliver that ordnance are currently in other places. The question is how long will it take for us to get forces in position to take care of the problem and how many ROK, Army and civilians will die while that happens.
This could turn out very badly.
I agree. I think the probability of that rises exponentially as our nation is seen as irresolute.
I am by no means suggesting we go poke Il in the eye with a stick. I think it is important to make sure he cannot miscalculate our resolve, as I feel that history tells us that an uncertain signal is often the prelude to war.
I think the problem is that Kim rightly perceives that Obama has far less resolve than Bush who completely bailed on this issue, just like Clinton. I actually find Bush more responsible because Clinton’s policies had already demonstrably failed when Bush abandoned his brief, firm line approach and retreated to Clinton’s failed appeasement policy. Bolton was right on this one and Bush threw him under the bus if I may borrow a phrase.
Obama isn’t responsible for this mess in Korea but he will be responsible for what is likely to be a miserable, failed response to Kim’s threats.
He has no resolve. NoKo knows it. Iran knows it. Isreal knows it. Russia knows it. China knows it. The UN knows it. The man wouldn’t have the resolve to play any hand much less the miserable had he now holds.
Will a few million dead Koreans or Israelis wake up this idiot to reality? I really wonder. And I pray it doesn’t come to that.
Thank God this nutjob waited until my wife finished her tour at Kunsan to start this crap. I was worried enough as it was without the nukes and missile tests. If the Nork generals knew what was good for their country they’d put a bullet in Kim’s head and beg the South to annex them.
What really scares me is that some people think Kim is doing this to appease the NoKo generals. It may turn out that he is the “moderate” in all this. Of course, that is a relative term when dealing with a bunch of loonies. Kim may turn out to be only moderately less insane than some even more hard-line generals. If that is the case then an untimely case of “acute lead poisoning” for their “Dear Leader” may actually make things worse.
The problem is nobody really knows what is happening in North Korea much less why and who is responsible for what. The only way these people could be more isolated than they are is if we turned the place into a radioactive wasteland. And that may turn out to be what happens.
Nobody defied Hitler either.
jangar:
There was the assassination plot. And they executed Rommel for it.
Not only is The One certifiably insane, he’s a coward to boot! God help us!!
So apparently lgm doesn’t have intelligence.
Who knew?
The Shadow knows what evil lurks in the heart of Liberals
My God…is it possible for someone’s IQ to regress daily? It has to be somehow medically impossible for someone to be this unintelligent.
So, in your mind, a missile is the only way in which a nuclear device is able to be delivered to it’s intended target?
Try to think about this one, since you obviously have yet to in any of your previous postings.
“Try to think about this one,…..”
Yep, RetFireman….ship to harbor to boom. Protesting against any boardings and searches all the while enroutee and Obama sitting on his a** waiting for them to magically and suddenly join the fellowship of man….all because of his charm and personality. I would bet on “Boom” happening first. And a whole shipload of his slaves would think nothing at all of sacrificing themselves for their glorious leader.
And just what were all those B-52’s loaded with from 1962 on? ICBM’s?
And just how was WWII and Japanese expansionism and torture and other crimes against humanity stopped in 1945…Atlas rockets?
Just exactly what are we looking for feverishly at all our ports of entry? SCUD missiles tipped with nukes?
My God…what an amazing ignoramus. And he is supposedly an educator. The parents of his students should sue the school.
I know, let’s get a large group of those “activists” from the colleges and ACORN and get in North Korea’s “face!” I’m sure they will be educated and learn the error of their ways.
I think North Korea’s reaction would be the same as what I would do to any activist who comes to my home and tries to get in my face. DOA
I love this quote:
“I don’t think that anybody in the (Obama) administration thinks there is a crisis,” Gates told reporters aboard his military jet early Friday.
except it needs a bit of modifications, to wit:
“I don’t think that anybody in the (Obama) administration thinks
there is a crisis,” Gates told reporters aboard his military jet early Friday.Good lord man, what will it take to (a) make them think AT ALL, and (b) do we have to wait for them to roll across (and under) the 38th parallel before they “think” there is a crisis?
As is so often the case in this administration, they are just waiting for their opportunity to make change. Can’t let a crisis go to waste, and by extension, you can’t take pre-emptive action to keep it from erupting.
Is this not the most clueless administration on foreign policy, or is it just the most clueless administration PERIOD???
Mr. Gates needs to listen to his Generals and Admirals, not Rahmbo and Gibbsy. I think even Sasha and Malia, with their wealth of foreign policy background could do better than the clowns in the clown car at the moment.
PS – Paint roof white? So heat is reflected into atmosphere causing additional global warming? Good answer. Another one without a clue.