RE: North Korean minister of defense executed
May 14, 2015 at 1:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 14, 2015 at 2:03 am by Thumpalumpacus.)
(May 13, 2015 at 8:53 am)Chuck Wrote: China doesn't have much of a leash on North Korea. China has zero interest in a nuclear armed North Korea, and couldn't stop North Korea going nuclear.
This is the naked truth. If China could have stopped NK from going nuclear, it would have. China could not do so.
They are even less positioned now than they were ten years ago. As are we.
(May 13, 2015 at 2:44 pm)Faith No More Wrote:(May 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: Min, sometimes your cynicism reaches ridiculous heights. WTF does North Korea have to do with oil?
Actually, if you think back to when the Bush administration was trying to justify the war in Iraq, they came up with the so-called "Axis of Evil," which was three countries with evil dictators that threaten the U.S. Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
But Min.'s point is that we'd have had a military intervention by now if Un was sitting on black gold.
When that AoE bullshit was being peddled, I was of the opinion that rather than a ground war in Iraq, we ought to strike at NK's nuclear facilities with bombers from Andersen AB in Guam, escorted by fighters based in Japan.
(May 13, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Faith No More Wrote:AFTT47 Wrote:Yeah, I get it now. Can't say I agree with it but I get it.
Liberal conspiracy theories are every bit as silly as conservative conspiracy theories.
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's an acknowledgement of the American mentality. Why is it that we're so concerned with the ongoings of the Middle East yet nobody cares about the horrendous violence occurring in Africa? It boils down to one word: resources.
That doesn't explain the interventions in Bosnia, or Somalia. It doesn't explain the fact that the Iraq invasion lowered the amount of oil available on the world markets.
