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Originally Posted by mcgeedo
My point, baraka, if I must have one in order to post in this particular forum, is that viewpoint means everything. In my world view, Obama threatened to threaten the North Koreans if they launched their little missile, and then went silent when his bluff was called. The Liberals will say (I'm guessing) that he is "improving America's image in the world" by doing things like this. My view point differs, of course. You and I will come to a completely different interpretation of events such as this even though we are reading the same basic facts about the event.
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Name one President since Truman that's done anything at all differently.
Hint: you can't.
We have never called their bluff. The sheer weight of the artillery focused on Seoul keeps us from ever doing so. Until they make an openly hostile act (and "launching a satellite" isn't, but "testing a ballistic missle" is), we will never act. If we did, somewhere between 500,000 and 5,000,000 South Koreans would be dead in 2 weeks. So long as they have plausible deniability, there's not much we can do since there are very few realistic alternatives.
Unless you support an invasion and full-blown war, probably with the Chinese on the other side. And, given the current state of affairs, if you are actively endorsing that idea as the best course of action, you're as dumb as most liberals accuse GW Bush of being.