We've got Kim Jong by the balls now...!!

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  • inmytree
    inmytree Posts: 4,741
    know1 wrote:
    So do you propose we just attack him instead?


    why not...?
  • Eliot Rosewater
    Eliot Rosewater Posts: 2,659
    jlew24asu wrote:
    exactly what i was thinking.....
    Why am I not surprised? :D
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    But, you've got to admit... this shit IS funny. They CAN'T be serious... can they?
    ...
    Is it April 1st, already?
    Oh no, it's fuckin' hilarious. The thing is, the administration is serious. That's what's so funny.
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    inmytree wrote:
    why not...?


    you want to know why we wont attack north korea?


    well they could shoot a nuke at seoul within seconds for starters. do you really need this explained to you?

    full out attack isnt an option. you should be appaulding that move from bush. sure its laughable to take away ipod shipments but fuck we cant attack them
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    cutback wrote:
    Oh no, it's fuckin' hilarious. The thing is, the administration is serious. That's what's so funny.


    you guys are easily amused
  • puremagic
    puremagic Posts: 1,907
    Pearl Jam and toast wrote:
    yeah it probably won't do any major damage to him at all (cmon, there are a billion ways to get these things esp. as leader of a country) but it sure as hell is a middle finger :p


    That finger might mean something if these products were made in the U.S.A by american labor forces and not just carried the label assembled in the U.S.A.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    chiefojibwa wrote:
    yeah, heaven forbid we go after someone with BLTs


    blt?
  • jeffbr
    jeffbr Seattle Posts: 7,177
    puremagic wrote:
    That finger might mean something if these products were made in the U.S.A by american labor forces and not just carried the label assembled in the U.S.A.

    Huh? I thought you said we already lost on the diplomacy front, and you're concerned that the world is laughing at us. But if the products were made in the USA your opinion would be different? I don't get it.
    "I'll use the magic word - let's just shut the fuck up, please." EV, 04/13/08
  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    jeffbr wrote:
    Apparently diplomacy and subtlety are lost arts for some here on the MT.

    Pretty much ... What this post actually is yet another attempt to make Americans look stupid. Its not like these folks actually wish the sanctions against North Korea would be more effective. Some of them probably worship Kim's "admirable attempt to defeat capitalism" (cue Rage against the Machine tune here).

    And if this post sounds snarky ... Well, sure ... It IS snarky. A lot of people on here think that the best way to combat bad American politics is to embrace another version of bad politics, one that happens to be on the other end of the political spectrum. It gets hard to read after awhile.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    jeffbr wrote:
    Huh? I thought you said we already lost on the diplomacy front, and you're concerned that the world is laughing at us. But if the products were made in the USA your opinion would be different? I don't get it.

    I would agree with you that this is a diplomatic effort if it meant something, if it were less than nothing. Posturing like this means absolutely nothing. Diplomacy is usually more successful in sit-down face to face talking. Even if Kim is a crazy little turd, Americanism obviously appeals to him (in his own strange little way), so lets find a time and place for our leaders to have a chat with him.
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  • rebornFixer
    rebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    gue_barium wrote:
    I would agree with you that this is a diplomatic effort if it meant something, if it were less than nothing. Posturing like this means absolutely nothing. Diplomacy is usually more successful in sit-down face to face talking. Even if Kim a a crazy little turd, Americanism obviously appeals to him (in his own strange little way), so lets find a time and place for our leaders to have a chat with him.

    Except that these sit-downs, palavers, whatever you want to call them, have happened a whole bunch of times already, and all North Korea does in response to them is further escalate the situation.
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    reborncareerist wrote:
    Pretty much ... What this post actually is yet another attempt to make Americans look stupid. Its not like these folks actually wish the sanctions against North Korea would be more effective. Some of them probably worship Kim's "admirable attempt to defeat capitalism" (cue Rage against the Machine tune here).

    And if this post sounds snarky ... Well, sure ... It IS snarky. A lot of people on here think that the best way to combat bad American politics is to embrace another version of bad politics, one that happens to be on the other end of the political spectrum. It gets hard to read after awhile.

    That's a giant leap in logic there. I think some of us here, many of us here are humored by the bungling political "efforts" that we see, not, as you say, taking the side of the opposite political spectrum. Hell, if there were a true opposite spectrum, maybe it wouldn't be so ineffectual.
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    reborncareerist wrote:
    Except that these sit-downs, palavers, whatever you want to call them, have happened a whole bunch of times already, and all North Korea does in response to them is further escalate the situation.
    ...
    I have seen the arguement of North Korea being dark at night... a sharp contrast to the brightly lit capitalist South Korean side of the border. The basic arguement is that they are a poor, back country agrarian society with no electricity.
    ...
    How does this back woods, poverty stricken agrarian society get missiles? Do they build them in barns? Grow them in rice paddies? Where do they come from?
    ...
    Maybe we should have a sit down, talk to palaver with the source of their technology... CHINA. You know, tell them to quit selling that shit to them.
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