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In reply to the discussion: After new N. Korea missile test, U.S. says has military options [View all]paleotn
(17,778 posts)28. Easy for you to say, since I assume you don't have loved ones in Seoul..
Neither do I for that matter. That fact makes it awfully easy for us armchair strategists to be a little too bellicose when we have limited skin in the game. Secondly, exactly where did I write... IGNORE HIM? Can you point that one out for me or are you just beating up a straw man? Thirdly, Kim Jong Un is many things, none of them admirable, but only Hitler was Hitler. Bad analogy and Godwin to boot. That's 15 yards and loss of down.
My statement is containment and diplomacy. The same thing we've done for decades with nuclear armed Russia and China. After all, Mao was just as despicable as Kim, but most rational people didn't get all Godwin about it.
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They Could, But If North Korea/China/Russia's Goal Is To Reduce US Influence...
TomCADem
Sep 2017
#25
Trump, has said he has secret plans and knows more than all of the military generals. The idiot! n/t
RKP5637
Sep 2017
#2
So you wish to wait until NK kills tens if not hundreds of thousands in an attack?
former9thward
Sep 2017
#11
So lets kill them now instead of later? Is that what you're suggesting? Aren't you a peach.
paleotn
Sep 2017
#18
i've thought about what might happen if we launched a missile over North Korean territory.
Calista241
Sep 2017
#10