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Originally posted by Mike AI@Feb 10 2005, 11:14 PM
PD you live in the past. You and those who share your scars from the Korea and Vietnam are putting the rest of us at risk.
N. Korea's nuclear program could have and certainly SHOULD have been stopped.
How many American's die in Korean war? How many would die if N. Korea detonated a nuclear weapon in LA? San Fran? Seattle? Tokyo?
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Mikey, Mikey, Mikey ... this has nothing to do with past scars from previous U.S. mistakes.
BTW, if you think I consider Korea a mistake, you are wrong. Truman should have had the balls to fire God before the debacle of Chinese involvement, but other than that, it was the right thing to do.
This has, as I said before, everything to do with geography. The DMZ is 27 miles from Seoul, South Korea. Just the other side of that 27 miles are about a million North Korean soldiers and the heaviest concentration of artillery in the world.
Those pesky South Koreans are the problem. We are there, you know, to defend them. What do you think is going to happen if we attempt a surgical strike? Destroying a village in order to save it is one thing - but destroying the capital of an ally? That's a pretty ballsy risk, even for GW and the neocons.
You may not be able to believe this, but political ideaology ain't got nuthin to do with it. This is just fucking reality ... hello, rock, meet hard place. Been that way since 1953, and it ain't changed a bit whether Democrats or Republicans have been in office.