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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We have 50,000 troops on the Korean border. They are sitting ducks. As a veteran, I am not happy about it at all.
Ever notice that the head-in-the-sand position is strikingly similar to the ankle-grabbing position referenced in “BOHICA”?
Given Kim’s visible poor health and demonstrated lack of concern for the plight of his people, this may well be the one time he is not bluffing.
They “posture” and we cave. So we will cave to the pressure and not search the ships. They will then transport all the nuclear stuff they please to where ever. They know they just need to threaten and the rest of the world will go away. Can’t we just, for once, call their bluff?
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It’s murder out in the street
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That’s where I found my mandarin plum
That’s where you’d be if you found one
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And joy is complete
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One we understand
There where neon bends in daylight sky
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Cools me with her fan
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And joy is complete
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A brief musical interlude — a classic album by the way.
Obama is channeling Jimmy Carter, & the guy isn’t even dead yet.. *sigh* >:{
I wish it was “just” Jimmy Carter. I fear, however, he is channeling Karl Marx.
There is no one who displikes Obama more than me.
However, if this is the great crisis most of the posters appear to think it is then it’s time to be Americans. We have one Commander in Chief and it’s his call. If you all want to avoid a war then the best thing you/we can do is simply say, “As Americans we are united behind our President.”
The North Koreans will take note of a united America. You all share a common concern that we appear weak. Well, I suggest we not add to that impression.
I think his policies suck, but President Obama has my unconditional support in facing down North Korea. I may disagree with what he does today, tomorrow or the next day, but I sure won’t let the North Koreans know it.
We can criticize after this is over with. But for now if you want peace, then prepare for war……… as one nation.
DBN,
Good point. Talk about having nothing to lose…
I hear he’s not overly close to his son, and hasn’t really prepared him to be the next “________ Leader.” Thus KJI is probably viewing himself as the last of his family to run the joint.
Not good…
You make a very frightening point. If he is as ill as reported, he may be planning to take his whole country with him, and a few enemies as well. Chilling…and he is a madman.
Flyoverman,
I don’t think the dissent will come from the right. I think Obama’s biggest problems are:
a. his own ideology, and
b. the ideology of his base.
They don’t view this like you do. They don’t view NK as an imminent threat, either nuclear or conventional. Moreover, I don’t believe they would support US intervention even if Seoul or Tokyo were to go up in a flash. And certainly not if N. Korea merely crossed the border or sank some ships or shot down planes.
it’s not that liberals are isolationists… more like “deniers.”
But, again, I can’t imagine conservatives not getting behind even Chauncey if this came to a hot situation.
Only conservatives realize just how significant S. Korea is to the world economy, and the effect that it would have on it.
FOM – that’s why we volunteered to go in harm’s way. I suffered under some of the worst presidents in living memory, but I was always there. It’s time to answer the bell once again.
I’m pretty sure we all know what “The One” is made of. The same seven layers of crap he’s been force feeding the american people since the elections.
Scrapper,
Ever notice how really old people will start to prophesize the end of the world? Of course what they are prophesizing is the end of *their own* time here, but the point is still valid.
If you really believe that the place has gone to hell in a handbasket, that the end is upon you, and you happen to be sitting on a nuclear arsenal, and the means to deliver it to two of your most hated neighbors (S. Korea and Japan)
VERY not good, indeed.
There are some rays of hope however…
Just because he’s crazy doesn’t mean that everyone around him is. It’s possible that they will talk him out of anything stupid, or ignore him. Coups happen, even in bad places.
His only effective delivery system beyond the DMZ is an IRBM – precisely the kind of thing that Japan’s navy is equipped to down (courtesy of the USN’s missile defense). Nobody wants to bet the farm on missile defense working, but we wouldn’t have built it if we didn’t think it would work.
Let’s hope we don’t find out. Plus, soes Seoul have Patriots (or similar) capable of intercepting an IRBM?
But the question here is, “Will he?”.
Sorry, but I am not.
He would have mine as well IF he has the cojones for a facedown, but I ain’t holding my breath. So far he has shown he’s every bit the wuss that Carter was.
Well, Rob, I do confess that those are potential problems, because it is extremely difficult to cure stupid.
Well, then don’t complain the next time the Kos Kids won’t support a Republican in the midst of a crisis.
Michelle,
If the North has truly revoked the armistice, we are not “preparing for war”, we are at war.
The Korean War never ended. An armistice was agreed upon putting the war on pause. It provided a cease fire and a halt to hostilities, but not an end to war.
If one side withdraws from the arimistice, the war is on again, just as before. When I saw this news it was pretty shocking. It is one thing to test nukes and missiles, but quite another to resume a war that has been on pause since 1953.
Having been to the lovely DMZ in a past life, I can tell you that if the North decided to resume the fight, most of our troops at the DMZ would be anihilated. And given the proximity of the DMZ to the City of Seoul – about 30 miles- it would not take them long to reach South Korea’s largest city.
This is about the worst news I have seen in a very long time, if it is true.
Flyoverman:
To me, the question isn’t “Will conservatives rally behind the president?”
To me, the question is, “Will the president give us anything to rally behind?”
And given li’l bHo’s performance to date, the answer to the question is “highly doubtful”.
So I should support Obama no matter what so I can complain. That is illogical.
Flyoverman said:
While I understand completely with what you are saying, I have to respectfully disagree. Our one nation of old no longer exists or if it does, it is asleep. The despots of the world, especially now, see us for what we have become. This government does not support its friends, this government apologizes for our country on foreign soil, this government is headed by an individual that hates our way of life and the country he is President of, this government is dismantling the very core of what made this country great and the envy of the world and most of all this government would rather look the other way while holding a hand out for more debt relief. I fully expect nothing from this government except another excerpt of Teleprompter rage.
I know. They are sitting ducks forming a buffer to Seoul. This in not good. Doing as some on this board suggest is signing their death warrent.
Indeed.
The strategic purpose of the US troops has for decades been to serve as a “trip-wire”.
I think that, given our revolution in war-fighting doctrine, we have to think about letting our forces do what they do best; hit, hit the head and heart, and cut them off. That might entail a calculation that I think THE ONE is supremely ill-equipped to make; a preemptive strike at their command and control, and/or a strategic withdrawal from the DMZ to provide for maneuver. These would be excruciatingly hard choices to have to make, and I just don’t see THE ONE having anything like what it would take.
I think it is reasonable to assume that, if the N.K. actually start a shooting war, they are doing it with Chinese acquiescence. The Chinese, if they do not assent, would have to join us, or at very least forebear.
Given the current occupant of the White House and the useless U.N., its also possible that the Chinese could use such an action by NK to launch an invasion of Taiwan. We’d be hard pressed to react to both situations at the same time.
hawkeye:
True. We are in a very unstable situation.
I have some hope that China would take the part of a sane, civilized nation.
But I am an optimist.
Very rosy on your part. China has always resented European and US influence in what it considers its sphere in Asia and the Pacific. THE PRC will smile at you, work with you, and then stab you if it fulfills its ultimate agenda.
Yep. BUT…
Mao isn’t there any more, even in spirit…AND
they have a lot more to loose than they used to have.
Still, your point is well-founded.
Rags: Scary thought — does botox protect against radiation?
My only hope is she gets vaporized by the first blast as do all the others who got us into this mess.
Maybe Sherrif Joe Arpaio will be the senior ranking guy left in the government and then Kim Jong Il will get what is coming to him!
That’s not a photoshop photo – the company actually sells that phone.
Rags: True, but standing shoulder to shoulder with our troops are the South Koreans — and they will be fighting for their homeland. I’m sure you are concious of just how tough and skilled the South Korean soldiers are. They fought alongside us in Vietnam and they are very tough.
However, as Stalin said, “Quantity has a quality of its own.” and the North Korean have lots of people under arms.
No matter how it is sliced or diced, it will be like Helen Thomas when she wakes up (or when she goes to bed, leaves for work, arrives at work, goes to lunch…) — UGLY!
True, they’d have a lot to lose, but what they believe they’d lose would be worth it to them in the long run. They view things in the long term. Chinese cultural pride and history exists before and after Mao and are very strong influences on what they will do. Taiwan belongs to them, in their view, and they will get it and the PRC also believe we have no business interfering with its goals or its means to acheive them. Why else heavily invest in a deep water navy but to take us on?
Acknowledged. But SOME of the NK troops are literally the comic-book of Commie cadres…super trained, bulked up, and indoctrinated. I don’t know how deep in their force structure that goes, but I do know that, if anybody ate, the military ate during the famines.
I understand…tho I have no claims to real understanding here…that the NK capacity for a protracted fight is very low.
Massed troops were what Saddam had, and we moved through them like warm butter. This might be a different situation, however. No assumptions.
I can’t argue with anything Hawkeye said.
I could add that a blue-water navy is necessary for any modern trans-ocean power. How else do you project force?
DBNinKY said (#98):
The last time conservatives said that — Condi Rice in that case — they were wrong. Right now, the intel is that the NoKos can’t make a nuclear device small enough to fit on a missile. The only thing they can blow up is themselves.
… and Ahmanutjob would take the opportunity to take out Tel Aviv. This is getting worrisome. Coordinated attacks on several fronts would be difficult to deal with for a real leader, much less Obambi.
Lately I’ve been reading that the NK Army is underfed and demoralized.
I wonder if Lil Kim rattles his saber just to raise morale.
Or anything they can drive a truck to.
Like Seoul.
Or ship a container to.
Like San Francisco, LA, Houston, Boston, New York, etc.
Or anything they could put aboard a sub.
And put in the proximity of one of our carrier battle-groups.
A disturbing parallel is to compare the North Koreans today to al Qaeda during the Clinton years.
Back then, we saw a steady ramp-up of terrorist acts without any corresponding sense of urgency in the White House. The terrorists must’ve been thinking something like,
“We declare war on them; we blow up their barracks; we blow up their embassies; we blow up their warship; and still they ignore us. What shall we do to get the Americans’ attention?”
The answer, of course, was 9/11.
Today, you can see the North Koreans thinking,
“We threaten them with nuclear weapons; we threaten them with missiles; we threaten them with war. And yet there goes the American president, polishing his golf game…
What will shall we do to get the Americans’ attention?”
The mind shudders to think about what the NoKos’ answer to that question will be.
On the bright side, I don’t believe that any of our troops still in South Korea are on the DMZ anymore. We’ve transitioned that responsibility entirely to the ROK army, and moved our forces back from the front line. So at least our guys won’t get vaporized at the outset if war comes…
True that. A modern trans-ocean nation needs a blue water navy to defend its overseas interests and allies, or to challenge and conquer its presumtive overseas opponents.
Or the PRC is just interested in interdicting and preventing the growing piracy problem in its neighborhood: )
Or anything they can drive a truck to. Like Seoul.
You mean on I-10 the unsecured, unguarded interstate between Pyonyang and Seoul?
Or ship a container to like San Francisco, LA, Houston, Boston, New York
I am SURE any ship from North Korea can just sail in to any of these places without notice and just tie up to the dock.
Or anything they could put aboard a sub. And put in the proximity of one of our carrier battle-groups.
You mean the 12-15 knot conventional sub that can leave a North Korean port unnoticed and catch up to a 25 knot carrier battle group usually accompanied by 2 Los Angeles Class attack subs?
And then there is that small matter of the US Ohio Class Posiedon-equipped “Boomer” in the Pacific with 240 nuclear warheads on board that could take out North Korea with about 1 /4 of their basic load of missles…….
The Obama foreign policy test is here!
Speaking of that, I noted with no small amount of discouragement that my Air Command and Staff College coursework has “doctrine” culled from the writings of one Samantha Power. (Sorry to divert from the thread but I had to vent)
Sigh.
Yeah, I was thinking that too….add to that demented El Presidente Hugo of Venuzuela who might also seize such an opportunity to do something as well.
Things worldwide could go very badly in a very short period of time.
Sort of like they said they couldn’t build another device??
Flyover:
Have the NK kidnapped Japanese…in Japan?
Have NK infiltrators NEVER crossed into SK to do mischief?
If YOU wanted to put a container in an American port, can you imagine a feasible means to so do?
A bottomed sub…no matter how archaic…is very hard to detect, and would nicely simulate one of our own anti-ship mines. All it has to do is be there.
Many of our ships and planes have the capacity to turn all NK cities to glass. Who will use them, and what difference would it make if we lose a city…including Seoul…first?
do ya think they have a plane or two they could put it on???
Even that was a lie.
On May 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am, Rogue Cheddar said:
I think I may have overgirded my loins, I’m starting to feel woozy.
Thanks, Rogue, for some humor while we discuss a really dismal situation in NoKorea.
I don’t support Obama one bit in anything. I pledged allegiance to the flag and the Republic, which is based on the U.S. Constitution. If Obama’s actions happen to coincide with that, fine, but he is irrelevant to me. If his actions are in contradiction to my interpretation of the Constitution, then he is the enemy.
Not the ship, the container. They could easily truck it to any of the ports in China and throw it on a container ship. It would most likely end up in a West Coast port. LA, Oakland, Seattle, Tacoma…
When the missiles start flying, watch for the protective anti-matter shield to pop up over all of the 2008 blue states.
Call it the “Chrysler Dealership Method” of missile defense.
FOM, this sounds like another excuse for failure by the Obama administration. If they adopt it, you should get royalties, but I wouldn’t hold my breath, if I were you.
Just like the economy and the Gitmo situation, I’m sure Obama staffers are writing powerful, hard-hitting speeches blaming the Bush administration for causing this crisis that BO was unlucky enough to inherit. (The fact they can never seem to resolve anything is irrelevant, it seems.)
My prediction: another Pueblo incident. Then another. And another. The NKs will become pirates with nukes. (How do you think BO will deal with this?)
Capn Ramius said:
Cap — BO will just give another Teleprompter responce with the same inflection he gives with all his teleprompter responces – look grave and turn his head from side to side and jut out his chin.
As I recall, liberals are the ones who claim 9/11 was an inside job and we bombed our own buildings – idiot.
Tell us, oh great idiot, how do YOU have access to intell?
While on American soil.
Gawd! Do you practice being stoopid or does it come natural?
P.S. NoKo is not an Islamic state – idiot.
He’s a liberal, comes naturally. He does, however, get plenty of practice on this site.
It is, probably, an Islamic Client State…NUKES-R-US.
From Stratfor :
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090526_north_korean_nuclear_test_and_geopolitical_reality
And we all know lgm has a lock on intel…
And he has that quote from Condi Rice right in his back pocket.
“We must close the truck transported container gap.”
General “Buck” Turgidson
Does that intel come from the same CIA that you gleefully assert was WRONG about Iraq’s WMDs, etc?
Isn’t it fun to pick and choose which “intel” you want to believe based on what fits your political ideology at that particular time?
lgm: Your facts must come from the same intelligence source SanFranNan uses since she can’t rely on the CIA any more.
Please share with us YOUR sources.
Also, you might want to send your apologies to your fellow libs BEFORE they get incinerated by a NUDET in SanFranLand.
/sarc off
Naw…the same “intel” that called Bolton crazy when he predicted the NK nuke test.
“Politics makes for strange bed-fellows”
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
It’s not hard to imagine Lil’ Kim, Ahmageddon, Hugo (Hollywood’s buddy) and the Chicoms colluding to bring down the Great Satan.
Obambi’s (milk)toast.
Gordon Brown is like-minded.
Sarkozy may be our only hope.
Dex: Now I KNOW it is indeed the end-times!
Assuming your sources are correct, are we to then just wait until they have a deliverable weapon before taking action?
when i was in s korea, my impression was that the s korean military was well up to the task of defending it’s country. maybe we need to “loan” them a few stealth bombers to project decimation inside n. korea should they actually be stupid enough to cross the dmz. i was with the 2nd inf out of camp casey, so i saw lots of fence time. to think that the north could march those thiry miles from the dmz to seoul without losing the majority of the army is ludicrous. tanks make really good targets for blackhawks and tows, as we saw in iraq 1 and 2. large surging armies can be decimated from above with minimal effort. yes, missiles will fall in the south, and it will be a war for maybe a week. but just as in 1951, the war with n. korea lasted a few months because we weren’t ready for the attack, but the majority of the war was with china, not n. korea.
That begs the question of whether we’ll honor our treaty commitments or not. We bailed out on South Vietnam. How many of our “allies” are starting to quake in tier boots about now?
Each with eyes, ears, and brains…
On-my-soap-box said (#155):
Are you sure about that? Reading MM, I thought all bad guys are either Islamofascists or Democrats, and I don’t think NoKo is run by Democrats.
cpo, rags, of course you are right. as a vet of the vietnam police action, i know full well our troops won every battle, every skirmish, and every firefight. the media lost that war with the likes of john kerry and other legendary dem icons. anyone who believes america under dem rule will stand up and fight needs to look at a history book. clinton, passed on osama and terrorists, carter, passed on iran, kennedy/johnson went halfway to war, but only halfway. the old bill cosby routine about the revolutionary war comes to mind: you colonists, you get to hide behind trees, dress in normal clothes, and kill the enemy any way you can. you british must dress in bright red coats, walk down the middle of the streets, and not attack anyone other than the people attacking you.
lgm, north korea thinks it is domocratic, look at it’s name.
Marxists/Democrats… what’s the diff?
You walked into that one.
North Korea is an example of the logical result of ObamaReidPelosi’s policies taken to the extreme.
Government control of everything leads to universal misery.
Given a choice between a North Korean and a Democrat, I would take my chances on the North Korean.
You beat me to it!
There is no such thing as a Democrat party.
Regardless of what they call themselves, they are socialists/statists/collectivists…pure and simple.
The difference between the North Koreans and other communists, and our domestic socialists/statists/etc., is one of degree only – they are of the same kind.
Not to worry my friends (hate it when McCain says that) Miss Hillary is Gravely Concerned. Nothing forces a nutjob wacko to back off faster than a Gravely Concerned twit.
And if Little Kim does attack Miss Hillary we be Seriously Gravely Concerned: Take that Kim!
I am sure that Russia and China will jump right in to assist us any minute now-the UN and all that-think France and Belgium have mobilized? I understand Belgium’s army has some of the best hairdressers in Europe on board as their troops sing “I feel pretty, Oh, so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and bright!”
Allies? If I were going into harm’s way I think I would want Americans covering my flanks.
Reading MM, I
thoughtfelt or something all bad guys are either Islamofascists or Democrats, and I don’tthinkfeel or something NoKo is run by Democrats.Not Dimocrats…just their fellow-travelers…
It’s time for Obummer to issue tasking orders to…
Team America! F@*%, Yeah!
The Korean War almost reignited in Aug 1976 over the “Tree Trimming Incident” Ax Attack at Panmunjom where 2 US Officers were killed by an NK attack to prevent the tree from being cut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_Murder_Incident
A full squadron of F-111Fs was deployed from Mtn Home AFB, ID as part of the US response force, and current NK Leader Kim’s daddy backed down in a very conciliatory manner! What will our dear leader do in response to Kim’s hostile acts?
Drudge is reporting that the Russians are worried that a Korean conflict could go nuclear! No kidding! Maybe these idiots should have thought of that BEFORE their “Dear Leader” lit off a couple of nukes! Do you think they will suddenly develop this fear when Iran lights off a couple of nukes? Do you think the stupid Russian government has realized they are already within the range of Iranian current missiles?
I wonder if the idiot Chinese are worried now that their lunatic neighbors have nukes?
It is a bit late to worry about that crazy uncle experimenting in the basement now.
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-39913120090527
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