What's next?

IMO, it's a prolonged blackmail scheme.

Kim Jong Il will let the highest bidder dictate the use, expecting that bidder to be us. When he successfully tests it on a missle, the price goes way up.

We'll probably just open up another printing press, pay him off with big bucks, and help Jong Il's economy and regime from imploding. When the North Koreans can't get any more out of us, they'll sell it to someone else and dare us to do something.

Oh, the President will talk tough in public and claim victory, but behind the scenes we'll be giving the North Koreans a nice tax payer funded economic bail out so they don't use or sell their new toy.

 

Sounds like a war that can pull us out of this "economic crisis". But Kim really should have been "suicided" a long time ago.

 

Let's nuke 'em

 

I don't think the people of North Korea deserve to be nuked, they have suffered enough under Kim, and adding radiation sickness to there current problems isn't right in my book. We do however need to do something about that so called leader they have.

 

meh, satellite surveillance and a few well placed "smart bombs" should do something about an idiot like that.

 

Did anyone ever think...even in the back of their mind...that this could be posturing by the administration? I mean, we have had crisis after crisis since this new administration came in.

I know I'm tin foiling with that, but they called it during the campaign. This would be the event that Obama could use to take a position of strength and change his view to the people.

 

Change his view to who? The world? I don't understand why Obama considers himself more accountable to the world's view than the country's he was elected to lead.

Kim Jong Il is laughing at the US right now. Whats Obama going to do, talk to the UN, put some economic sanctions on N. Korea. Yeah, cause that stuff kept them from firing missiles and testing nukes in the past right?

 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an Obama supporter by any means. I'm a strong conservative. I was just "tin foiling" there and seeing it as some set up to attempt to make him take a strong stance on National Security as a way to improve his image to Americans who doubt him....like me.

And yes....the UN is a huge joke.

 

Sanctions don't work. We invaded Iraq because we thought they had weapons of mass destruction. Guess what? I am pretty sure N Korea does and I doubt Kim will use much restraint with it. Rather than empty threats we need to go in and get this fool before he becomes a real problem.

 

But but but...what if he moves them and when we get there they are gone so we don't have any WMDs? [/sarcasm]

 

I really wasn't directing that at you, just a blanket statment to those that actually care what other countries think of us.

 

We knew Iraq had WMDs but we gave them 12 years to hide them.
We will do the same for North Korea. Start with ineffective UN sanctions and go from there. History repeats itself.

 

This time it's Bush's fault LMAO