YEONPYEONG ISLAND, South Korea – A U.S. supercarrier and South Korean destroyer took up position in the tense Yellow Sea on Sunday for joint military exercises that were a united show of force just days after a deadly North Korean artillery attack.
North Korea and China may believe that the United States has its military stretched to the breaking point already and will not able to confront them in a showdown against South Korea, the U.S. having neither the resources nor equipment to engage in yet another military adventure.
This is most likely true. We have bled our military dry these last ten years fighting no-win wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We are deep in debt and close to national bankruptcy, and the nation as a whole is sick and tired of these supposed wars against terror, and has had its fill of our youngsters coming back home with missing pieces or in body bags.
This would seem a good time for China and the North Koreans to "re-unite" Korea, force us out of the picture, just as it was done in Viet Nam. This is - and always has been - the ultimate goal for North Korea, a United Korea.
But there is a huge difference in the U.S. military now and the political thinking that directs it. During the Viet Nam conflict we were not stretched beyond our capabilities as fully as we now are, and did not have "tactical nukes" to fall back on as we do today.
We now see in Washington a political mindset that is much more favorable to the idea of "tactical nukes" as a battlefield option. The idea is that using these "tactical nukes" on the battlefield is somehow more acceptable and not the same as blanket bombing an enemy with huge megaton weapons, and that their use will not trigger an all-out nuclear exchange.
The idea of using these weapons is no longer "unthinkable".
Keep in mind that Obama has no military savvy at all. He listens to his advisors who are part of the military-indrustrial complex and his career Generals and Admirals, all of whom prefer endless war.
It is a definite possibility that - if the Chinese and North Koreans launch a full-scale invasion of the South - Those career Generals and Admiral's will see tactical nukes as an only option to "protect" our our 30,000 troops in South Korea.
And this very thin-skinned president that will not allow himself to be pushed around by anybody, may just agree with them.
The Chinese and North Koreans must understand that pushing a maxed-out United States with a president that has a Chicago mobster-style background is far more dangerous than cornering a wounded grizzley.
Much more.
Consider the results if the North Koreans - in response - used a perhaps Chinese-supplied "tactical nuke" on that supercarrier we have steaming up and down their coastline.
All bets would then be off, wouldn't they?
2 comments:
The daimonion do the fighting and dying, the daimon never do. There's no profit to the Khazars from either side launching nukes, unless they're the neutron bombs we should have used on Saudi Arabia nine years ago.
Besides, regular tactical nukes would "damage the precious environment" and Gaia knows the 0bammunist needs every mulleted, effeminate-voiced, crunchy fag vote he can get.
all the money we spent on a war against people that don't have wmd's, and let the ones that do, loan us money and send us tainted food..sigh*
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