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US will not use force to inspect NKorean ship - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_koreas_nuclear - broken link)
Well, well, well.
So all that was needed from the little pot-bellied dictator was a few threats of war and annihilation?
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SEOUL, South Korea – The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Friday.
An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sailing off China's coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.
Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy met with South Korean officials in Seoul on Friday as the U.S. sought international support for aggressively enforcing a U.N. sanctions resolution aimed at punishing Pyongyang for its second nuclear test last month. The North Korean-flagged ship, Kang Nam 1, is the first to be tracked under the U.N. resolution.
What was that obama said about getting the international community together on this?
Let’s get this straight. The Obama administration insists on pursuing the UN path to resolving the dispute with North Korea. It demands — and gets — stronger sanctions to keep North Korea from profiting off of its arms manufacturing, which funds its nuclear program while North Koreans starve. Instead of acting on the resolution, the Obama administration backs away after Kim Jong-Il threatens war over the enforcement of sanctions.
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Kim now knows he can do whatever he wants in the Pacific Rim and suffer no consequences at all. He can sell missiles, proliferate nukes, and the worst that will happen will be the US Navy asking, “Mother, may I?” when it comes to inspections. This, Obama wants us to believe, is “smart power”; in reality, it’s neither. It’s Jimmy Carter-style weakness, and our enemies will derive the obvious lessons from it.
Joe Biden warned that dictators would test Obama early in his presidency to test his mettle. He also warned that Obama’s response would look bad. Biden’s smarter than I thought.
Yea, I agree that this shows our weakness and the Norks will take this lesson to heart. Maybe the South Koreans requested that we not use force on the ship.
We should have pummeled them with our huge american penises while drinking coca cola and listening to toby keith. That would have showed them who's the boss.
Might want to study up on the Cuban Missile Crisis and the role USN ships were to play in stopping and searching Soviet or Soviet Bloc ships inbound to Cuba with suspected contraband aboard.
We should have pummeled them with our huge american penises while drinking coca cola and listening to toby keith. That would have showed them who's the boss.
USA! USA! USA!
Endlessly entertaining, aren't they?
Oh yes, DO let's have another war. And this time, let's make it NUCLEAR!!!
This whole issue was created just for you anti-Obamanots to raise when you're tired of other things. Understand that I don't support Obama either. I don't support anyone from the two-headed party monster that always gets its candidates elected.
Think about it. The most powerful country in the world, the one that has satellites that can read license plates and can use facial recognition if you so much as glance upwards has "no idea" what's on board a ship coming from a country with nuclear capabilities and an aggressive attitude? Does that make sense? Do you honestly think the US military/government would admit to such a thing if it wasn't a psyop designed to make you put North Korea on your mind, to scare you? Do you honestly think the military is asleep at the wheel? For some inexplicable reason, the sadist running the starving nation of North Korea is now posturing for a bigger piece of the world's attention. And the US military is LETTING him get that attention, by drawing ours toward some mystery ship ("Oh my god!") and what it could possibly do.
Everything in politics, as in war, is psychological. How this plays out is anyone's guess. But saying Obama is a weakling may not be the proper conclusion to reach. It may make you happy (oh, ignorance, what bliss it provides!) but it ignores many other "big picture" strategies that could be occurring. We're being used, I just don't know for what end.
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