US agrees to pull out

[southern yankee]

Originally Posted by guppy

Afghanistan will be on the US target next...even though u.s. forces are pulling out of Iraq , they could just as easily return if the need or want be.

i think our eyes should be more on N.Korea. They will be like Teddy Roosevelt said. Walk silently, but carry a big stick. that stick will be nuclear.

[spot]

Originally Posted by southern yankee

i think our eyes should be more on N.Korea. They will be like Teddy Roosevelt said. Walk silently, but carry a big stick. that stick will be nuclear.

You don't think perhaps that the Chinese would take exception to a US nuclear strike within 180 miles of Chinese territory? That's the distance of the furthest point in North Korea from China, most of it's a lot closer.

Why do conditions in North Korea have any effect on the USA?

How would exposing the people of North Korea to nuclear fallout be any benefit to them?

The population density of North Korea is six times that of the USA, you can scarcely want to colonize the place.

[southern yankee]

Originally Posted by spot

You don't think perhaps that the Chinese would take exception to a US nuclear strike within 180 miles of Chinese territory? That's the distance of the furthest point in North Korea from China, most of it's a lot closer.

Why do conditions in North Korea have any effect on the USA?

How would exposing the people of North Korea to nuclear fallout be any benefit to them?

The population density of North Korea is six times that of the USA, you can scarcely want to colonize the place.

i just feel they are a lot more dangerous. You know Dynamite comes in small packages.China may fool us all and join in.

[spot]

Originally Posted by southern yankee

i just feel they are a lot more dangerous. You know Dynamite comes in small packages.China may fool us all and join in.

Apart from living in Propaganda Central, what reason do you have for thinking that North Korea is "a lot more dangerous"? Your own Administration took them off their list of Terrorist Nations only last week.

[southern yankee]

Originally Posted by spot

Apart from living in Propaganda Central, what reason do you have for thinking that North Korea is "a lot more dangerous"? Your own Administration took them off their list of Terrorist Nations only last week.

a feeling i guess.

[spot]

Originally Posted by southern yankee

a feeling i guess.

You want to see hundreds of thousands of dead North Koreans just because you have a feeling?

The easy way to work it out is from considering those two questions I asked which you didn't answer.

Why do conditions in North Korea have any effect on the USA?

How would exposing the people of North Korea to nuclear fallout be any benefit to them?

[southern yankee]

Originally Posted by spot

You want to see hundreds of thousands of dead North Koreans just because you have a feeling?

The easy way to work it out is from considering those two questions I asked which you didn't answer.

Why do conditions in North Korea have any effect on the USA?

How would exposing the people of North Korea to nuclear fallout be any benefit to them?

i never said attack them. One minute your on the list then you are off. Sounds like the reason the US went to Iraq.

[spot]

Originally Posted by southern yankee

i never said attack them. One minute your on the list then you are off. Sounds like the reason the US went to Iraq.

What you said was "Walk silently, but carry a big stick. that stick will be nuclear" which sounds a lot like threatening a nuclear attack. It followed your saying "our eyes should be more on N.Korea" when guppy said "Afghanistan will be on the US target next". You see the link? Target? North Korea? Nuclear stick? It's your correcting guppy's "Afghanistan will be on the US target next" with a pointer to North Korea saying the US must "carry a big stick. that stick will be nuclear" which worries me.

Really, these two questions are the key to it.

Why do conditions in North Korea have any effect on the USA?

How would exposing the people of North Korea to nuclear fallout be any benefit to them?

If conditions in North Korea have no effect on the USA then why should the US strike North Korea with nuclear weapons?

If the US were to strike North Korea with nuclear weapons how would the people of North Korea benefit?

[southern yankee]

just like Japan in WWII. So worried about Germany. but did not get involved until we were attacked. by who Japan

[spot]

Originally Posted by southern yankee

just like Japan in WWII. So worried about Germany. but did not get involved until we were attacked. by who Japan

So, your fear of North Korea is that North Korea will attack the USA Homeland?

Do you think that's a serious possibility? Or even a remote possibility? Has North Korea the manpower? Has it any delivery system capable of doing damage to the US Homeland? Has it any warhead capable of mounting on a missile or any plane capable of flying that distance? What does this fear of North Korea consist of, in any believable scenario?