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North Korean fireworks
Fireworks will be exploding from sea to shining sea tomorrow in celebration of our nation’s independence, but does North Korea’s Kim Jong Il have plans for his own pyrotechnics display? And will President Obama fire back?
The Washington Times reports that should North Korea launch a Taepodong-2 missile and it threatens U.S. territory, U.S. missile defenses will take it out. Air Force Gen. Victor E. “Gene” Renuart, Northcom commander told the Times:
“The nation has a very, very credible ballistic-missile defense capability. Our ground-based interceptors in Alaska and California, I’m very comfortable, give me a capability that if we really are threatened by a long-range ICBM that I’ve got high confidence that I could interdict that flight before it caused huge damage to any U.S. territory.”
The general added that they won’t activate missile defenses if it looks like the North Korean missile will fall safely into the water.
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Is the Washington Times a good source of information for Korea given its owned by Rev. Moon?
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Obama’s latest statement about North Korea was “what we’re also trying to do is to keep a door open for North Korea to start acting in a responsible way…”
This is about all he will ever do or say about North Korea even if they attacked Pearl Harbor with nukes. The message is that America is a friend of maniacal dictators. America also loves terrorists who will be given free tropical vacations at the expense of the American taxpayer if they will only love us.
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One can only hope that General Renuart’s hands will not be tied.
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Obama is learning that campaigning is easy, but making the big decisions is not. He’s kinda over a barrel here. He has been forced by NK to deploy a system he cut funding for, as his last line of defense against a missle launch that’s been forewarned is coming. Which if it happens, is clearly an act of war. If NK lauches at Hawaii as advertised, and the missle is shot down, he looks bad for cutting the funding to an obviously wothwhile national defense system. Reagan for the idea, and Bush for carrying out, look like geniuses and Barry comes across looking like a naive amatuer. If the system fails to intercept, he won’t take flack for cutting funds. But that will be meaningless if the missle should hit Hawaii.
Now Barry likes alot of Bush ideas, but pre-emptive strikes isn’t one of them. So the idea of taking out the missle before launch is kinda out of the question. And then if you do that you must, as mynock pointed out last week on this, deal with the fact that SK will be overrun by NK, and we have 24,000 US servicemen dropped into the crap. So it’s not really an option.
The best we can hope for is it never makes it’s target, falling into the sea nowhere near Hawaii. Because if it plays out differently Obama’s got some tough decisions ahead. He’ll know how Bush felt, that’s for sure. And I’m sure he’s already aware that this job wasn’t as easy as he thought. I wish him and the US the best here. This is one area I really don’t want Obama to fail on.
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“Is the Washington Times a good source of information for Korea given its owned by Rev. Moon?”
Did they quote the general correctly? If so, then it’s irrelevant.
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I don’t want Obama to fail. I want him to make better decisions.
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Until recently, the Washington Times was run by Wesley Pruden, a Baptist from Arkansas. I take the Washington Times weekly edition. They have always been reliable. Bill Gertz is the best there is on military matters.
I haven’t seen a change since Pruden left as editor.
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I want Obama to resign.
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#6 I don’t want Obama to fail. I want him to make better decisions.
And if he doesn’t, would you want him to succeed?
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