Comments on: (Breaking News) N. Korea nuke deal reached

By: hat and heating oil in hand « GUANO ISLAND

hat and heating oil in hand « GUANO ISLAND — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:46:27 +0000

[...] largely silent on the North Korean issue. Even former Nork watcher, the Marmot, has declared that he does not care about North Korea - a topic that once crowded his hole. Perhaps years of beating up on the Clinton [...]

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:43:11 +0000

But they’re essentially the same hardballers beneath it all, so I wouldn’t imagine there won’t be sudden, renewed heat on Nork badness after a Repo victory, if they get it. The demos get in it, could be a new ball game. Probably not a better one. Life continues.

Hear, hear!
Do you recall when Carter came in and preached human rights over security? He invited the Shaw leave and we lost stability in one of the four major Muslim nations in the Middle East. His idiot administration said the new guy was a modern day Gandhi, we all know better now…. I can see it now with the DEMS. All the weak minded idiots will cry Vietnam and we will loose all purchase on the matter at hand, the ongoing first Caliphate.

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 01:19:45 +0000

An interesting side topic.
I will take a lot of grief for this but..

While the US certainly didn’t win in Vietnam, you would have a very hard time saying the North Vietnamese won. They ran the US out.. but what they were left with made the concept of seriously growing asian communism a joke. With the hammering they took, they didn’t exactly have the resources to spread the religion of Marx out and around their neighborhood. They were left to build a nation from nothing.

Precisely! We were run out because of the American people and her politicians could no longer stomach the nightly televised body counts.

By: relayer77

relayer77 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:00:17 +0000

“Vietnam was an unwinnable colonial war - read your Barbara Tuchman and get edumacated.

Huh, you prick! You are not telling me anything new. Roll Bab’s book up as tight as you can and shove it up your ass. We lost the war because of slashed funding and the loss of will to fight.”

An interesting side topic.
I will take a lot of grief for this but..

By: relayer77

relayer77 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:51:07 +0000

The White House must claim a victory. If the talks fail Nancy Pelosi will wag her anti-Bush Dildo at the whole administration. No solutions, only criticism. We need to starve them out. No oil, no reactor.

I agree. The only sense I can make of this is that it’s early electioneering. Rice getting her groove on makes room for the top dogs to say ‘it warn’t me’ when and if the issue gets hot later. In the meantime they can sell a foreign policy ‘achievement.’

By: The Marmot’s Hole » Of Norks and Neurons

The Marmot’s Hole » Of Norks and Neurons — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:49:56 +0000

[...] Skeptics justifiably doubt the prospects for success of the recent nuclear deal hatched in Beijing. Others are more sanguine. Our Marmot just doesn’t care. [...]

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:38:07 +0000

I highly doubt many in Korea will be cheering as so many hate the US. But I also very much doubt that an attack on the North is in the works. I’ve seen not the slightest indication of this.

Make that envy and you have a valid statement.

By: Kunsanpcv

Kunsanpcv — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:49:07 +0000

Snow, I was speaking figuratively rather than literally about the cheering. I agree that there is no preparation to attack the Norks, but I wonder what the Bushies would be doing if the Iraq war had gone smoothly and they were now looking around for another regime to change? They seem to be a one-trick pony with war being the one trick.

By: snow

snow — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:23:55 +0000

“IMHO, they can/will not give them up under any circumstances. I predict that you will see the usual shuck and jive on their part and on ours and the usual eventual collapse of the ‘understanding’ about just what was agreed to.”

Spot on.

“Koreans North and South will stand up and cheer when Bush attacks Iran as it will prevent another war on the Korean peninsula (for a while).”

I highly doubt many in Korea will be cheering as so many hate the US. But I also very much doubt that an attack on the North is in the works. I’ve seen not the slightest indication of this.

By: Kunsanpcv

Kunsanpcv — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:50:18 +0000

Someguyinkorea, I’m not sure what your point is in your statement above? It seems hearsay evidence at best and I’m not sure how it relates to the ‘nuclear deal’ that has been struck. My point is just that ALL Nork policy is geared toward maintaining the KJI regime in power. It does not matter what happens to the rest of the country or its people. To completely protect the KJI regime the Norks must develop/keep nuclear weapons (or have us think they have them). Only nukes checkmate US regime change intentions. IMHO, they can/will not give them up under any circumstances. I predict that you will see the usual shuck and jive on their part and on ours and the usual eventual collapse of the ‘understanding’ about just what was agreed to.

Also, it boggles the mind to think that Gore would have screwed the pooch on US foreign policy any worse than the current gang of idiots in the Bush administration. By any set of measurements (Conservative or Liberal) this guy has been an major disaster and his coming attack on Iran will be but the mould on a giant shit sandwich from which we will all have to take a big bite. Koreans North and South will stand up and cheer when Bush attacks Iran as it will prevent another war on the Korean peninsula (for a while).