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On Wed, 11 May 2005 16:50:00 -0700, "gatt"
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"Defending America: The threat that politicians and their policies pose to
security."

With the temperature rising on the nuclear activity in North Korea and
Iran, and the asinine antics of this administration, it's beginning to
feel like the apocalypse is nigh. :-(

Larry,
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.

Patrick
student SPL
aircraft structural mech


"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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With the temperature rising on the nuclear activity in North Korea and
Iran, and the asinine antics of this administration, it's beginning to
feel like the apocalypse is nigh. :-(

In article ,
"W P Dixon" wrote:
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.


This isn't an international politics group, but Larry can't help taking
shallow pot-shots at the President for some reason.

Both Iran and North Korea are so skilled at propaganda, unless you're
deep into the intelligence community, I doubt that any of us has the
slightest picture of reality in those countries, nor the qualifications
to determine how much of a threat, if any, they pose at this point.


JKG

Jonathan Goodish wrote:
In article ,
"W P Dixon" wrote:
I will have to agree with you it sure does look gloomy, Iran
would be no
problem if we were not already stretched in Iraq. But I really
worry about
North Korea, their Chinese buddies liked helping them out during
the first
go around. And strategically it would behove the Chinese to help
the North
Koreans again. That IMHO, could get mighty ugly.


The Chinese are playing both sides here. Crazy Kim serves their
purposes but they have to make sure not to give him too much leash. The
elephant in the room is Japan. Their air force and navy are first-class
and very modern. They reprocess plutonium for power plants and they
already build satellite-launching rockets that could deliver a nuke
quite nicely. Technologically they are far ahead of anyone except us,
and that's only because they've refrained from investing in defense the
way we do. It would take them 5 years at best to become a regional
military superpower, and the Chinese don't want that to happen. The
last thing they want is the Japan Self-Defense Forces standing between
them and Taiwan. So long as the Japanese aren't too scared they stay
largely pacifist, but this is changing as the WWII generation dies out.

-cwk.