RobTheDrummer wrote:
Johnny, I'm sorry but that whole statement is just completely wrong.
What's wrong with it? You really think NK can successfully mount a traditional nuclear attack on US soil? Because I don't think ANYONE can. Kim may have The Bomb, but we have All The Other Bombs. His people are literally starving to death, while we have an obesity problem. He's using B-stock Chinese and Russian Cold War surplus weapons, and we have the most technically-advanced weapons systems known to mankind. He'd be shooting spitwads in a gunfight. Kim Jong Il is a tiny little chubby dude who owns the world's largest porn collection. The far-right painted him as this mastermind/AntiChrist because they needed more boogeymen to scare the shit out of The Base. (It's always Us vs. Them on Fox & Friends) Now Obama's playing along because he needs a major distraction.
Let me spell it out: If North Korea dropped a nuke on Hawaii, the entire world would allow us retribution, the way they did when we went to Afghanistan. (Iraq was another story... wrong place, wrong war) This is assuming that a nation that can't even feed itself could manage to get a nuke TO Hawaii.
Right-wing scare tactics are
so 2003. Just so you know, Cap and Trade will be defeated in the House, too many red-state dems won't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Sure, Murtha will vote for it, but only because he owes the DNC bigtime for helping him keep his post. And Obamacare will suffer the same fate... polling suggests that the average American thinks it's too expensive, whether it works or not. The system is working as designed. All the fearmongering you hear in the Fox-run media is simply prep for a run at taking back Congress in 2010, a la 1994. It might actually work, too, if they don't get too extremist.
But, you know they will.--->JMS