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Originally posted by LynnsABCs
The US education system's history classes seem to skip over much about the Korean War. Before you assume the N. Koreans are gutless, you need to read a little history. The N. Koreans are so gutless that they beat to death an American Army officer at the DMZ a few years ago over the issue of triming some limbs off a tree that blocked our view.
We do not want to go back to N. Korea in a ground war unless China is on our side this time.
As far as Bush being re-elected in 2004, the American economy will be the deciding factor in how that pans out. People vote their pocket books.
It is all well and good to do the eye-for-and-eye thing and treat terrorists as animals, but it means we become what they are. In fact, the US reaction from Sept 11th of attacking an Arab country means we became just what BenLaden (sp?) said we were.
We need a big fence around the US like Israel is doing and tell the rest of the world to go to hell.
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Hey I like your wisdom. Too bad it's unrealistic.
1) Isolated incidents don't count. I stood in a DMZ zone once when I was nine years old. I wandered a little too far from my father. I had Kalishnikovs pointed at me, and the back of me Poppa's hand across my ass until I was damn near purple. If I was blown apart by bullets, I would have been the first non-combatant nine-year-old American kid shot to death over his own inability to stay close to his old man on a misguided tour of South Korea. Big deal! Isolated incidents can happen to anyone. They're still gutless. Circle jerks extraordinaire, playing a superpower's game by taunting us with 20-year-old nuke tech. Whether they gang up and hack apart a soldier, or shoot to death a kid, they wouldn't withstand the sort of firepower we possess today as compared to their technology of 20 years back, at the least.
2) The China angle's a no-brainer. They're on our side now anyway. Enough of our tech, tee-shirts and all else get made over there for 15 cents an hour.
3) Last I checked, the market was up 141 points. Pres. approval is getting close to 70 percent. Dems have straw men with very little campaign budget to go against the GW juggernaut. Plus they all sound like thwarted one-night-stands. Don't worry, George'll be reelected.
4) Like it or not, vengance is in the human nature, country of origin not withstanding. Batman can teach you that.
5) Tell the ROW to go to hell and you'll end up pushing your Porsche instead of driving it. What needs to be done is convince the ROW that our actions are for their benefit too, whether you or I believe they are for anyone's benefits aside from Bush and his close-knit groupies.