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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:22 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 4:08 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 2:19 pm)A Theist Wrote: Just as I thought they would. Kim backs down.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/346566...eat-report
Not really. They never intended a first strike in the first place, just to show an increasingly belligerent US* that they now had nukes and could deliver them a serious distance, to Guam, say. Once that was done, there really was no point stoking the flames further.
Precisely.
It takes a considerable amount of willful stupidity to think this was ever anything else. So of course Trump's slack-jawed supporters will clap and bark on cue, as the Great Leader pats himself on the back for forcing Kim to do what he was always going to do anyway. 
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:23 pm
We're pretty good when we attack people who can't fight back. Grenada. Panama.
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:32 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 4:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We're pretty good when we attack people who can't fight back. Grenada. Panama.
If SunTzu is alive, he wouldn't need to write his art of war, he only needs to point to the US and say "don't be like them", and he would encapsulated everything he said in his master work.
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:40 pm
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2017 at 4:41 pm by bennyboy.)
I gotta say, some of you guys seem really shortsighted to me. The problem isn't that Kim is going to drop a couple duds in the water of Guam. That was never the threat. The reason that was a threat is because it shows they have the control to do that.
The real threat is that they WILL have nuclear bombs, and these bombs WILL be able to reach the continental United States, including Washington, in maybe a couple of years.
A little less USA, USA and gloating, and a little more legitimate worry, might serve you better methinks.
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:41 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 2:19 pm)A Theist Wrote: North Korea is backing off a threat to fire missiles at the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, according to a new report.
Great! Now Guam can dedicate on battling the real monster:
Nearly 100 sex abuse suits against Catholic priests rock island of Guam
http://religionnews.com/2017/08/04/nearl...d-of-guam/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:46 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 2:46 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 2:25 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: He's such a troll
^^^
He's been making idle, toothless threats since he gained power.
Doesn't surprise me.
Maybe. But his teeth are growing, and fast. Why play the Boy Who Cried Wolf, when one day a megaton wolf may show up?
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 4:56 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 2:58 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I bet he gets off on sniffing women's dirty/worn panties.
Trump or Kim?
No matter, if one is led by a panty sniffer, it softens the blow of being outmaneuvered by another panty sniffer.
Lol I was talking about Kim but Trump probably has some weird kinks too.
I'm not sure why, but I always think of Asians as being kinky. Especially a weirdo like Kim.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 5:01 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 4:56 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Trump or Kim?
No matter, if one is led by a panty sniffer, it softens the blow of being outmaneuvered by another panty sniffer.
Lol I was talking about Kim but Trump probably has some weird kinks too.
I'm not sure why, but I always think of Asians as being kinky. Especially a weirdo like Kim.
Kink is not a race, it is a personal individual thing and "kink" is in every nation to some degree.
Now as far as the abuse of power, that is really the issue.
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 5:03 pm
Did Trump really have prosties pee on him or was that an unsubstantiated rumor? Fetishes intrigue me.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
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RE: North Korea Backs Down
August 15, 2017 at 5:08 pm
(August 15, 2017 at 4:46 pm)bennyboy Wrote: (August 15, 2017 at 2:46 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: ^^^
He's been making idle, toothless threats since he gained power.
Doesn't surprise me.
Maybe. But his teeth are growing, and fast. Why play the Boy Who Cried Wolf, when one day a megaton wolf may show up?
I dunno, why don't you take it up with someone who, you know, actually cried wolf?
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