North Korea launches missles

[f3lix]

North Korea (tested) launched 6 missles yesterday around the same time that the Discovery shuttle took off and caused global panic amongst most of the world's nations. Amid the anger North Korea caused for doing this, they launched a 7th missle later in the day. I wonder what Big Brother is going to do about the ingnored member of the "Axis of Evil."

[Repugnant Abomination]

If we have a right to use weapons so does any other country in the world. NK though is a rogue nation who's gotten too big for their britches. Frankly their oppresive government needs to be pwn3d and their peoples minds need to be freed.

[Ugly Bastard]

I would like nothing more than to see Bush & Co. drop a nuke and destroy the whole country before we go in there and drive ourselves deeper into debt with our McDonald's and other various propaganda.

[angry pancake]

A few missiles sent back at them ought to do the trick. Bomb their missile silos and be done with it.

[f3lix]

Isn't the hypocrisy great? We do nuclear testing in the US, but tell North Korea they aren't allowed to. Personally, I think their neighboring countries have much more to worry about than we do, especially considering our own missle defense system will likely clean out any threat thousands of miles before it would hit us.

[Ugly Bastard]

That fucking Ching Chong Chang guy, or whatever the fuck his name is, scares the shit out of me to look at.

[angry pancake]

Originally Posted by f3lix

Isn't the hypocrisy great? We do nuclear testing in the US, but tell North Korea they aren't allowed to. Personally, I think their neighboring countries have much more to worry about than we do, especially considering our own missle defense system will likely clean out any threat thousands of miles before it would hit us.

Actually, I blame North Korea for the Maverick's collossal collapse in the 2006 NBA Finals.

[Repugnant Abomination]

I think China, Russia and Japan will keep North Korea in check. They pretty much have to.

[vaga1220 *]

Japan has fucked them up in the past.

[Mr. Blonde]

[vaga1220 *]

We must fear teh Hapkido!

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[blackbirdsjoy]

Originally Posted by Repugnant Abomination

Frankly their oppresive government needs to be pwn3d and their peoples minds need to be freed.

Yeah, just like Iraq!

[Repugnant Abomination]

First of all, F you. North Korea is worse than Iraq ever was, but make no mistake Iraq was a dictatorship. Should we have gone in? Debate away, but sometimes the worst action is inaction.

[angry pancake]

The puzzling thing to me about Iraq is that it doesn't really seem clear what the objective is supposed to be. Iraq is a dictatorship, O.K., so is Cuba and a lot closer. Depending on who you ask, the main reason for that war seems to change. Some folks will say it was about enforcing resolutions regarding WMD. Others will say it's fighting terrorists. Some will say its about liberating and freeing the Iraqi peoples. Some will say its about being mad after 9-11 and taking it out on somebody, anybody. Those more cynical will say its about money -particularly blowing up Iraq and sending Haliburton in to rebuild it. Ask the towelhead and they might say its about imperialism --that may be the one thing it's not about or we're doing an incredibly shitty job at it.

Fuck, I don't know what the Iraq war is about anymore and that is the troubling thing. How do you win this thing? I guess it depends on who you ask. It seems to me that there really wasn't much "now what" thought put into this. Reminds me of my cat who tries like fuck sometimes to get outside. Everynow and then the cat will make it outside the door. Once it makes it outside, it's as if the cat says "now what" and just stands there on the drive way not knowing what to do. By Gawd the cat made it outside though.

Now for the Angry Pancake opinion. I'd just as soon take the damn place over. Give up on this idea of freeing the people from themselves and spreading democracy. Lay the smack down on these folks Stalin style. Take all the resources I want and export them back to the U.S. I was thinking that it would be call to take the Iraqis as slaves like they did a few hundred years ago with the Africans. However, we saw how that turned out with all the darkies running around now these days.

[DJ FC]

We need to airlift in entire Wal-Mart stores and McDonald's franchises. They'll get along with America soon enough...

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

you gotta give North korea some props though, thats some clever ballsy shit theyre pulling.

[Ugly Bastard]

ap,

Your first two paragraphs were very intelligent and raised some good questions. Then your last paragraph completely changed gears and was totally over the top which helped me realize why you like Nubblies so much (you're an asshole). Well done.

[f3lix]

Originally Posted by THEINCREDIBLEdork

you gotta give North korea some props though, thats some clever ballsy shit theyre pulling.

I love it.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Originally Posted by f3lix

I love it.

What exactly have they pulled off? After the Korean war they have essentially become a rogue military state, so scared that somebody is going to come in and slap them around that they have practically starved their citizens and ruined the economy just so they have have more weapons. And for that? To protect them from the West? Even if they do have one of the top 10 most powerful militaries in the world we could still crush them easily. The only scary thing is if they aquired a nuke or if they got buddy buddy with China, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and so on. But nobody in the Pacific will befriend them (too much) because somebody that unstable and paranoid in your backyard playing around with nukes is too much of a liability. It threatens the balance of power and security in that area.

I will tell you what the real danger is: The generation who remembers the Korean war is dying out. The new generation of young people dont have the same understanding and long for a reunited Korea. Seeing as how the North could easily beat down the South if we werent there, they would take control of the entire country, and that is frightening. South Korea has one of the biggest economies in the world, and theyre only going to get better. Seoul is a leading technological center of the world. I dont want the North getting access to that.

So how to deal with the North? We are doing the right thing right now. Get everyone in the area involved, hold group meetings. The North wants to meet with US in private, well, fuck that. Make it everyones problem. If we had done that with Iraq maybe we wouldnt be in there (practically) alone.

[THEINCREDIBLEdork]

thats part of the problem w/ attacking NK, we don't want them fucking up our buddies in the south

[f3lix]

I said "I love it" because somebody is ignoring the United States of Forced Freedom and seeing what we'll do about it.

[Repugnant Abomination]

Are you saying forced freedom is bad, in comparison to forced dictatorship?

[Mr. Blonde]

Good call Repug.


And btw, F3lix spelled "missiles" wrong in this thread.

[f3lix]

Repug, forced freedom in itself an oxymoron. Communism and socialism has thrown itself over everytime its been tried in our history. Freedom appears to be too much for people too, as our country is showing with all of their "we know what's better for you than you do" laws. I just wish we would focus on domestic issues instead of worrying about what Hee-Haw-Hee is doing is some other country with their own government. Forcing our opinions on other people is just wrong.

[Ironic Mustache]

That's an impossibility. Foreign trade requires interactions, and with interaction usually comes conflict.
N Korea has cornered itself and now it's basically being a cat trying to make itself look as big and scary as possible. When cats do that shit to me, I backhand them. The same applies here. Granted I didn't say I stab the cat in the heart, I just smack him around a little.