Greg,
Compared to Iraq, North Korea are able and probably more disciplined/motivated and a lot more dangerous than the Iraqi army. I do no want to do any clear cut final military judgement, but it is my opinion. The threat is also of more geographical nature. They have WMDs, they are known to be in the arms business and are more likely to sell WMDs than Iraq. As a discussion subject I think I have put down a fair amount of facts and if I would say more, I have to prepare a more complete statement. It will probably not result in anything, since the demand for my views are low by any decision maker. I will however repeat a key argument, that I think is essential when judging the situation, it is very basic and easy to understand. "It is not too difficult to wage war against a nation with 80% of the population under 16 and suppressed women. What a formidable global threat to the heroic US of A. Take away the old men and the crippled from previous wars and it is only less than 10% of the population left to consider. The 5% that are left after the heroic US war, will be the ones who vote in a "democratic society". It will be some time before women and children, the orphans and widows, get the right to vote and a majority will be violently anti American. I am sure that Hollywood will be able to disguise the realities long enough to give the Americans the "be good feeling" and also make quite a few bucks when they do it. Realities will come another day." Is a war against a majority of children and women the preferred choice or a little bit more patience. In my opinion a war is not a solution, but a proof of failure. The US hysteria about the risk that Iraq would do something to them, are more based assumed revenge feelings with the Iraqis, than any facts. Iraq have never, what I know about, attacked or performed a terrorist act against US. Does anyone seriously think that a new war would remove the basis for the fear? My opinion is that Iraq's major threat to the world and especially for the developed countries, lays in the oil reserves. Not a threat to be discarded and one that need to be taken care of. It amplify the need of solving the Iraqi disarmament and incorporation in the world community very fast. The way it will be done, will have an effect on the financial interests of corporations and nations. Since Saddam Hussein is a proponent of an Arab oil blockade to solve the Israeli situation, he is very dangerous. You have to note that the urgency of dealing with him, appeared after his promotion of a new oil blockade and that Iraq even stopped oil deliveries for a while. He did not get the support from the other oil producers that he hoped for, but only that he brought it up is bad enough. If you consider the data that are available and the above, a result of the Iran war and the Gulf war, what is your opinion? If you look at the situation with US/UK who are locked out from winning oil contracts. Is it an immediate WMD threat or distribution of oil interests? Hakan At 11:03 AM 2/24/2003 -0700, you wrote: >To be honest, I would not call 1,000,000 half starved, malnourished troops >"able". Heck, the only reason they are in the military is because, the >military are the only ones that are given food by there own government. I >have heard that some UN people consider as it stands now, there is no clear >cut winner. > >Greg H. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Hakan Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> >Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 23:20 >Subject: Re: [biofuel] Just one man's observation! Was: Looking at the >RESPONSE ... too all that's going onin the world. > > > > > > North Korea is more difficult, with 1,000,000 able men standing against > > 600,000 of US 10% and unwilling South Korea 90%. > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
