Smitty-48 wrote:If Al Qaeda had flown a jumbo jet into the Daytona 500 instead of the World Trade Center, Bush could have used nuclear weapons on Afghanistan and Iraq.
AQ got the wrong target, New York is not the center of American global power, it's actually in Floriduh.
You're not wrong.
But the goal was to start a war, not get the ME annihalated. UBL was one smart motherfucker, indeed.
You want a controlled war with the West for 'regime change', you freak out the liberals. You do that shit to the rurals, and you get glassed.
In a direct reversal with the recently disclosed official White House policy, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the U.S. rejects a 'freeze for freeze' approach that would pause joint U.S./South Korean military drills in exchange for a pause to North Korea's nuclear program.
Speaking in Vancouver at a meeting with foreign ministers, Tillerson said that "we reject a 'freeze for freeze' approach, in which legitimate defensive military exercises are placed on the same level as the DPRK’s unlawful actions. The pressure campaign will continue until North Korea takes decisive steps to de-nuclearize."
Looks like we'll be able to watch naval exercises, during the Olympics.
So North and South Korea are to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics and will field a joint team in the ice hockey competition.
A strange development considering recent tensions stirred up between tiny hands and tiny button.
A victory for negotiation over dick swinging sabre rattling.
Montegriffo wrote:So North and South Korea are to march together under one flag at the opening ceremony of the winter Olympics and will field a joint team in the ice hockey competition.
A strange development considering recent tensions stirred up between tiny hands and tiny button.
A victory for negotiation over dick swinging sabre rattling.
Indeed, for navel gazing Euro-leftists it’s a huge kumbya victory any time a communist dictator is accommodated and pampered.
The South Koreans think it fucking sucks tho:
’Pyongyang Olympics?' Backlash reveals changing attitudes in South Korea
... “North Korea was all about firing missiles last year, but suddenly they want to come to the South for the Olympics? Who gets to decide that?,” Kim Joo-hee, a 24-year-old translator told Reuters during a coffee break on a chilly Seoul afternoon. “Does North Korea have so much privilege to do whatever they want?”
Moon’s office declined to comment beyond saying the two countries would be coordinating logistics for the Olympics, which begin on February 9.
Opinion polls released since the plans became public have shown limited support for some of Seoul’s proposals.
Only four out of 10 respondents said they favor the plan to march together under a flag symbolizing a unified Korea, according to a survey released on Thursday by the South Korean pollster Realmeter.
Tens of thousands of people took to social media to vent their disgust after plans for the joint activities were announced on Wednesday, with one commenter saying the Korean peninsula flag is “not my goddamned flag”.....
Well obviously, goading a nuclear power into an atomic conflict is much more constructive than getting both sides to sit down together and resolve some of their differences. After all, who wouldn't want the excitement of thermonuclear destruction raining down on the US. It's not as if Europe is an intended target of NK.
Montegriffo wrote:Well obviously, goading a nuclear power into an atomic conflict is much more constructive than getting both sides to sit down together and resolve some of their differences. After all, who wouldn't want the excitement of thermonuclear destruction raining down on the US. It's not as if Europe is an intended target of NK.
Monte, keeping the spirit of Neville Chamberlain alive and well in 2018.
Kowtow to the dictator because he’s scary. That will make things better for all.
Indeed - one would think our own record of appeasement which allowed NK to go from a small, isolated, soviet cult to a nuclear power would be all the evidence we need to stop behaving in a way that empowers North Korea.
But here’s Monte with that reliable circular reasoning of “NK is empowered so we should keep following the strategy which empowers it, because if we don’t they’ll do something.”
Great idea, if you want to empower that regime further.
Lousy idea if you don’t.
You're not wrong. 
