That wouldn't have had to deal with nuclear Iraq if they had waited longer before taking them out either. They jumped the gun because they are paranoid fucks surrounded by enemies on all sides.Speaker to Animals wrote:The Israelis aren't having to deal with a nuclear Iraq right now, so..
That is already ensured by the ineptitude of North Korea's nuclear program.Smitty-48 wrote:It's not paranoia, merely a rational calculation, millions of North Koreans and Americans die vs. millions of North Koreans die, and Americans learn to live with what they've done, in order to ensure that there is no mass attrition on the CONUS in a blinding flash of light.
Right and waiting until almost 20 years later isn't that much more costly than it would have been to take them out then, so it was the right call to not take em out in 98. You still have the luxury of time, but you can't wait forever on the current trajectory, it's true.Speaker to Animals wrote:I am pretty sure we were a cunt hair from striking them in 1998. I remember some pretty bizarre shit getting mobilized after the first launch over Japan, but then it just stopped out of the blue.
StCapps wrote:Right and waiting until almost 20 years later isn't that much more costly than it would have been to take them out then, so it was the right call to not take em out in 98.Speaker to Animals wrote:I am pretty sure we were a cunt hair from striking them in 1998. I remember some pretty bizarre shit getting mobilized after the first launch over Japan, but then it just stopped out of the blue.
Take out a couple extra nukes, yawnville. Negliglible increase in cost, well worth the wait.Speaker to Animals wrote:Actually, yes it is.
No actually, that has been the American folly, they have sleepwalked into this for twenty years, and now they have let it come to the threshold of the breach, the window of oppotunity is closing fast, if they're going to preempt, they need to preempt now, now, now.StCapps wrote:Right and waiting until almost 20 years later isn't that much more costly than it would have been to take them out then, so it was the right call to not take em out in 98.Speaker to Animals wrote:I am pretty sure we were a cunt hair from striking them in 1998. I remember some pretty bizarre shit getting mobilized after the first launch over Japan, but then it just stopped out of the blue.
They might need to preempt in the not too distant future, the window of opportunity is far from closed, they don't need to preempt tomorrow. You are fear mongering.Smitty-48 wrote:No actually, that has been the American folly, they have sleepwalked into this for twenty years, and now they have let it come to the threshold of the breach, the window of oppotunity is closing fast, if they're going to preempt, they need to preempt now, now, now.
SK militarily outclasses NK more today than they did back then, the longer you wait while still preventing them from crossing the threshold the better. The optimal time would be the second before they cross it, but you can't risk cutting it that close obviously, but it would still be wise to at least wait for a little while longer to at least gather more information and weigh all the options.Speaker to Animals wrote:If we had dealt with it in the 90s, the SK casuties would be great, but nothing like what is risked now. The longer we do nothing, the worse the cost of doing anything about it becomes.
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