Originally Posted by jberryhill

Yeah... the last time we had a leader whose weakness invited the only foreign attack on the continental US since the War of 1812 was September 11, 2001.

Kim Jong Il is likely not even competent at this point, and the saber rattling is for domestic consumption in NK for a "crisis" situation to deal with dissent, such as it is in NK, with the succession of power to his idiot son.

But, yeah, whenever some tinpot dictator makes noise, he should be assured of getting the rapt attention of the fearful US President. Nonsense. NK does not have missiles that can reach the US (not even Hawaii), and getting a workable warhead onto a workable missile is not an easy, simple, or direct consequence of demonstrating rudimentary capabilities in either of those areas.

We can readily address any military action that NK could contemplate, and they know it. They are a child pitching a fit for attention, and it's obvious that the non-parents here are not at all capable of understanding how to address that type of situation.

Oh boy, Obama should say nasty things because the NK's are up to their usual verbal theatrics.... Real life is not a flamewar on an internet forum.



What, they are going to swim here?

Pfft... it is disappointing what cowards Americans have become. I grew up knowing we had 20 minutes warning to impact of everything the Soviets could launch. WTF is wrong with people these days - some idiotic posturing and words from the world's asylum for paranoia, and everyone wets their pants, cowers, and wants to hear the president act like the other half of a pair of drunk blowhards at the corner bar.