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giujohn wrote:

Respectfully disagree. Cruise missiles can take out anti-aircraft while simultaneously launching moab's... That's just one scenario.

Cruise missiles can only destroy known locations. Not useful against mobile radar/SAM sites. Not useful against fixed sites that we don't know about.

MOABs are simply not powerful enough to instantly kill an entire country before they have any chance to react. If North Korea manages to destroy Tokyo (or Chicago) while we are still in the process of destroying them, we'll have failed.

The food in NYC is equal to anything in either Paris or Berlin.

The notion that one city has the most "devine" food is very outdated.

oralloy wrote:

giujohn wrote:

Respectfully disagree. Cruise missiles can take out anti-aircraft while simultaneously launching moab's... That's just one scenario.

Cruise missiles can only destroy known locations. Not useful against mobile radar/SAM sites. Not useful against fixed sites that we don't know about.

MOABs are simply not powerful enough to instantly kill an entire country before they have any chance to react. If North Korea manages to destroy Tokyo (or Chicago) while we are still in the process of destroying them, we'll have failed.

Don't usually disagree, but....

We'd have use of the satellites we have in stable orbit over N. Korea to mark each and every piece of artillery they have. Each of those would be marked and tracked and assigned how ever many cruise missiles needed to take them out. We would jam their radar and communications and take 90-95% of those threats out within an hour. At the same time, anti-missile technology (patriots or other) would be tracking anything coming over the border.

I am pretty sure that if we decide to do any kind of strike it will be rapid and overwhelming.

However, all that being said and done, most likely China will bitch slap KJU and it will not come to any of that.

The North Korea situation is way more complicated than I can understand but NK blames Trump's aggressive tweets for tension.

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TOKYO — North Korea accused President Trump on Friday of “making trouble” with his “aggressive” tweets, amid concerns that tensions between the two countries could escalate into military action.

Tensions have been steadily mounting in recent weeks, as North Korea prepares for what it is calling a “big” event to mark the anniversary of the founder’s birthday Saturday, while the Trump administration warns that all options are on the table.

Expectations for a nuclear test or missile launch in the lead-up to Saturday’s celebrations in Pyongyang have not come to pass. Instead, there are signs that the regime is getting ready to hold a huge parade this weekend, perhaps showing off new missiles — something that would qualify as the “big” event it had heralded.

The United States has sent an aircraft carrier strike group to the Korean Peninsula region, and Trump has repeatedly tweeted that if China won’t use its leverage to rein in North Korea, the United States will act.

WP

I wish someone would tie Trump down away from any forms of world wide web for communicating when he starts tweeting for no good purpose except for making the world less safe.

Islamic State mufti killed in Mosul air strike

Abdullah al-Badrani, also known as Abu Ayoub al-Atar, reportedly died in an air strike by the US-led coalition on Thursday.

Al-Badrani issued many of the group's dictates, leading to the torture, death and sexual abuse of civilians.

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

The food in NYC is equal to anything in either Paris or Berlin.

The notion that one city has the most "devine" food is very outdated.

You forgot to add (sic) after putting "devine" in quotes, eh, Finn?

Maybe she was talking about Jingles, though, who knows?

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How did life begin?

What is consciousness?

Is time travel possible?

I don't think your response adequately addresses Snood's comment about "alternative facts" with respect to climate analysis as your examples are very speculative questions and lack the amount of physical evidence which underlies the anthropogenic greenhouse gas hypothesis.

The North Koreans would be crazy to attack us.
1. We already have nukes ready to be sent to North Korea from many bases around the world - by planes, ships, and land based missiles.
2. North Korea doesn't have the capability to stop any attack from our country - and our allies.
3. They would only commit suicide.

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Do you propose that we do nothing while they perfect missiles that can reach the Unites States? Given the ability to send nuclear missiles to bomb the US, Kim Jong-Un is probably crazy enough to do it. He has warned us several times that he will do it.

Do you propose that the people of Korea do nothing while the US has been threatening them with nuclear annihilation since 1950? Remember, [what a laugh, as if you propagandized folks ever knew] the US was the one that brought nuclear arms to the Korean peninsula in 1958, in violation of the armistice agreement..

The people of Korea know about how the US used nuclear weapons on Japan when there was absolutely no need. The people of Korea also know of the firebombing, the napalming, the vicious war crimes of the US against Japan because the US did the same to Korea.

The people of Korea held a war crimes tribunal in New York city in the 1990s, to which the US tried to restrict people from the south and the north of Korea
from attending. The big, free and open US of A.

Take it up with Finn, the word 'most' followed by "devine" are his inventions. Maybe you've had one too many happy meals today.

They already have, and they know how to do health care, and the food is devine.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ choice to help lead the department’s Office for Civil Rights once complained that in college she had experienced discrimination for being white, ProPublica reported Friday.

Candice Jackson was tapped to serve as the deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights, a position that does not require Senate confirmation. But she will serve as the interim head of the office until the assistant secretary has been named. At the office, Jackson will be charged with helping protect students from discrimination.

President Donald Trump’s administration announced Friday that the White House won’t release records of its visitors, raising new concerns from transparency advocates.

The decision not to voluntarily disclose White House visitor logs is a break from the policy of former President Barack Obama’s administration, even though Trump had called his predecessor the “least transparent president.”

White House communications director Michael Dubke framed the decision not to disclose who visits the president as resulting from the “national security risks and privacy concerns of the hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.” Time magazine first reported the reversal.

Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, called the White House’s security and privacy claims “a White House lie.”

This is how real populist leaders roll.