http://bit.ly/wLipD - - - WASHINGTON (AP) - North Korea's nuclear threats are grabbing the world's attention. But if the North were to strike South Korea today, it would probably first try to savage Seoul with the men and missiles of its huge conventional army. The attack might well begin with artillery and missiles capable of hitting South Korea's capital with little or no warning. North Korea's vast cadre of commandos could try to infiltrate and cause chaos while the South tried to respond. - - -
Recall that Joe Biden warned of some "manufactured crisis" in the first six months of Obama's presidency, to test Obama's mettle, our reaction to which would be horribly unpopular. He was pleading with die-hard Dems to "mark his words" and "gird their loins" for what was coming. Considering Joe can't keep any secrets, not even what he thinks of his boss's overreliance on a teleprompter, and he even anticipates that the reaction will be roundly unpopular, one can't help but wonder if the looming threat of N. Korea might not be that "manufactured crisis" he prophecied. The AP, which is as in-the-tank for Obama as any mainstream news service, is already putting out "hypothetical" news items like this. One sees China's hand in anything N. Korea does -- in fact the so-called "six way talks" are actually designed around the premise that China basically controls N. Korea. With China hating our guts for putting them in an economic catch-22 because our (reckless) monetary policies in reaction to the housing market crisis are threatening to undermine their huge investment in our debt (as if we didn't know that this policy was in fact a kind of provocation), war may be the only way they see through the economic pain their own country will experience as our economy crumbles under the exploding weight of Obama's spending spree. Getting the US in a proxy war with N. Korea seems more China's style than direct confrontation. Nor would such a war necessarily be a bad thing for Obama. He can only blame George Bush for the current situation for so long -- and his incredibly irresponsible fiscal policies are certain to create hyperinflation in the next couple of years anyway. Nothing like a good war, giving the Dems a pretext for the draft -- which they have been consistently proposing legislation over the last few years of Bush's presidency while circulating rumors that it was Bush who wanted to revive the draft -- to keep peoples eye off the ball. A nice conventional war would help Obama muddy the 'what prolonged the bad economy?" waters. I'm speculating of course, but history has a tendency to repeat itself because we humans have a tendency to ignore history's lessons. If this was not so, Obama would not be president; nor would he be taking George Bush's reckless deficit spending sin and making it a stimulating-the-economy virtue---a feat that is at odds with logic, but clearly his determined policy at this point. - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
