Yup. Yet another excuse for us to kill more of our young men and women by sending them to a war that we have nothing to do with so politicians can talk heroically about how they’re “protecting our freedom.”
And the beat goes on. LaDeDaDeDee. LaDeDaDeDah.
Not good… 
This is the last thing this country needs to get involved in, but the US loves to throw it’s weight around, so i’m sure our Government will get involved soon enough… 
Easy cynics. We haven’t committed any troops yet. I’d be very disappointed, at least, if Obama commits the US play “world police”, like goldenroad said. Still, this worries me.
Yah I know 6 people that have taught, are teaching, will be teaching their right now.
I talked to one of them this morning and she said its kind of blown out of proportion, but its pretty scary.
This is a lose-lose situation for Obama…
If he tries to get tough, the GOP will claim “More reckless Big Government Intervention” and if he takes a soft stance, the GOP will rip him for being a wimp and tell their weak minded base that N. Korea will nuke us by the end of the year because we won’t stand up against Communism…
this is pretty much a lose-lose for everybody.
There are a few things that I tell my students that can start WW III.
Iran/or others attacking Israel, China attacking Tawain, Pakistan and India getting into it over Kasmir with nukes, and this…hope this shit blows over. This has been happening for a while…the DMZ has had soldiers on both sides ready to go since the end of the Korean war.
We don’t have to. There’s about 30,000 already there.
Wait. So we should not support an ally when a nut job regime with nukes attacks them unprovoked? I get being pissed about Iraq, Panama, Grenada, DR, Vietnam, etc. But how is the US the bad guy here? And do you really think we should have no response at all?
Obama saying that we will support South Korea in their reponse is pretty reasonable. SK doesn’t want anything to do with an all out war, because NK could level Seoul at the push of a button. We’re not going to be invading Pyongyang any time soon…
So I’m going to the RED part of China for work in a couple of weeks …
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hoping they cancel the business trip
^ Dammit Pei-Yi, you be safe. Do you get to travel internationally a lot with your work? That would normally be kick ass to get to go over to any part of China for work, but yeah, what timing.
Hey, I’m with you man, despite my comment above. Absolutely you go and defend your allies. I trust if North Korea ever attacked Canada, you would be there for us too…however given the past actions of the American gov’t, I have a sneaking suspicion some dickhead politicians are going to try their hardest to take this as a perfect opportunity to spread some freedom sauce all over North Korea as opposed to defending South Korea.
Let’s get the story straight. The South fired first.
No doubt. I’d say that’s a pretty fair analysis.
That’s not what I said. Look South Korea fired first. Period. If your neighbor is a pyschopath it might be a good idea to provide a substantial amount of information before you fire “test” missles.
Either way the whole “incident” provided a perfect distraction from the TSA Tyranny “YOU MUST SUBMIT”.
Oh and the USA is you and I not the criminals in DC or the ones that run the Pentagon. So, NO the USA is not the bad guy.
How do you KNOW it was ONLY a TEST missle?
More like a provocateur missle if you ask me.
US has one of it’s top Warships in the region now, the USS George Washington…
This is not going to end well…
In Kim Jong-il’s mind, he must do something to S.Korea before he kicks the bucket to secure his twisted legacy as ruler of N. Korea…He does not give a fuck if he starts WWIII because he will be dead in 6 months due to his failing health…
This is a lose-lose situation for the whole planet if shit sparks off…
And Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot, she went on Glenn Beck’s radio show last Wednesday and said “Obviously, we gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”
The USS George Washington!?? Oh lord…the north koreans won’t stand a chance.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA[/youtube]
If war broke out between N and S Korea I would not want the US military involved. As for the 30,000 troops we have there now, if N Korea attacks S Korea, those American troops will die, and Obama won’t really have a choice. At this stage I doesn’t seem likely the US or South Korea will mobilize troops and attack. I don’t think Kim Jong-il wants war with the United States, and I don’t like China and Japan want war on their door steps, so I think their governments will do what they can to prevent that. The more I learn, the less worried I am.
