At 07:31 PM 12/31/2002 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>John D. Giorgis wrote:
>
>>At 11:17 PM 12/27/2002 -0800 Doug Pensinger wrote:
>>
>>>And I think your analogy is far too simple. The "neighbor" lives on the
>>>other coast and couldn't hope to hit us with his cannon in a thousand
>>>years.
>>>
>>
>>Doug:
>>
>>North Korea has missiles capable of incinerating a great many Americans in
>>Alaska.
>>
>
>If you had read the whole thread more carefully you would know that the
>analogy in question was in reference to Iraq, not NK.
I'll assume that you meant this to be a polite correction of an honest and
inadvertant error. Anyhow, just to show you how easy it was to make that
mistake, allow me to repost the relevant message in full:
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Jon Gabriel wrote:
>>
>> Can I beat my kid because he may hit me someday?
>
> I'm not a fan of the current administration's policy on NK, and I'm
> really not a warmonger, but... I think your analogy here may be a bit
> too simplified. If your neighbor across the street starts setting up
> cannons in his front yard pointed at your house and tells you 'it's a
> free country and i can do what i want.' when you tell him he
> shouldn't, do you have a right to call the police because he's
> endangering you and your family?
And I think your analogy is far too simple. The "neighbor" lives on the
other coast and couldn't hope to hit us with his cannon in a thousand
years. No one has seen the cannon he is setting up, but the fact that
he has every weapon imaginable pointed at him from many of his neighbors
is no secret. He has not threatened to do what he wants, the only
threats I've heard are that he will defend himself if attacked. And no
one has called the police, the police have decided that based on past
offenses he should be punished even if they can't come up with any new ones.
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Given that you were responding to someone who was discussing "the policy on
NK", I apologize for making the connection to the post you quoted - and I
thank you for clarifying your actual knowledge of North Korea's capabilities.
JDG
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