25th May 2010, 9:10 PM
"Horribly oppressing people, being annoying"
Love how you listed that in increasing severity there ABF...
Yeah I too doubt that China or Russia are going to be backing North Korea any time soon. They start a war, I'm betting they're going to, at worst, take a neutral stance, and more likely to actually join everyone else in opposing them. North Korea is led by some sort of crazy person. The only saving grace is the crazy leader's own policies vastly slow down his ability to get functioning ICBMs built, since he kills any and all "failures" due to his misunderstanding of how science is done. Of course murdering people being a "saving grace" says a lot about how miserable the populace of that place must be.
Oh, and don't think for a second that anyone's planning on nuking it. Not this president, not the last president, just about no one is going to nuke a civilian populace, because winning a war is more than just "beating the other guy up", it's political and there's got to be a clear and present gain out of that sort of thing, there isn't.
Love how you listed that in increasing severity there ABF...
Yeah I too doubt that China or Russia are going to be backing North Korea any time soon. They start a war, I'm betting they're going to, at worst, take a neutral stance, and more likely to actually join everyone else in opposing them. North Korea is led by some sort of crazy person. The only saving grace is the crazy leader's own policies vastly slow down his ability to get functioning ICBMs built, since he kills any and all "failures" due to his misunderstanding of how science is done. Of course murdering people being a "saving grace" says a lot about how miserable the populace of that place must be.
Oh, and don't think for a second that anyone's planning on nuking it. Not this president, not the last president, just about no one is going to nuke a civilian populace, because winning a war is more than just "beating the other guy up", it's political and there's got to be a clear and present gain out of that sort of thing, there isn't.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)