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US will not use force to inspect N. Korean ship

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PBO really showed them. I bet the NK's are really skeered now.

SEOUL, South Korea – The United States will not use force to inspect a North Korean ship suspected of carrying banned goods, an American official was quoted as saying Friday.

An American destroyer has been shadowing the North Korean freighter sailing off China's coast, possibly on its way to Myanmar.

US will not use force to inspect NKorean ship - Yahoo! News
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Again, as I attempted to explain to Triad. Avoiding conflict.

You are not a part of the CIA, Homland Security department, or the Departmnet of Defense (or at least not to my knowledge) and you don't know if new intelligence has surfaced that it is just rice. So before you start going on Triads rant about Obama being a wuss, wait for all the facts. Or at least give the benefit of the doubt.
 
Democrat4life said:
Again, as I attempted to explain to Triad. Avoiding conflict.

You are not a part of the CIA, Homland Security department, or the Departmnet of Defense (or at least not to my knowledge) and you don't know if new intelligence has surfaced that it is just rice. So before you start going on Triads rant about Obama being a wuss, wait for all the facts. Or at least give the benefit of the doubt.
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Why not just say that intel has proven that their cargo is, "just rice"? Wouldn't that quiet the claims of being a wuss?

Something like, "we have solid intel that the ship's cargo is just rice, therefore we're not going to push an international incident to inspect the vessel, on account of a load of rice".

Instead, they say, "we're going to avoid conflict because someone might get made and someone might get hurt".
 
Man you really want us to go to war don't you? Do you have some insecurity problems? We already know we're stronger than North Korea. We don't need to bully them to prove that. North Korea's a moquito buzzing in our ear. Do you want them to become a mosquito dropping bombs all over the place? Sure we shut them up but at what cost?

Do you even think before you type?
 
Mere theatre of the absurd.
 
OxymoronP said:
JUST RICE??? From N Korea where there are food shortages?
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Not to disagree with your point, but what makes you think the NK leadership wouldn't stoop to selling rice while their people starve?
 
Smoke[MaxX] said:
Man you really want us to go to war don't you? Do you have some insecurity problems? We already know we're stronger than North Korea. We don't need to bully them to prove that. North Korea's a moquito buzzing in our ear. Do you want them to become a mosquito dropping bombs all over the place? Sure we shut them up but at what cost?

Do you even think before you type?
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WE know we're stronger than Nk, but we should drive that point home to the NK's. They seem bent on testing how far we're willing to go to exert that strength. At what cost do we, "avoid conflict"?
 
apdst said:
WE know we're stronger than Nk, but we should drive that point home to the NK's.
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I'm sure they're well aware of that.

apdst said:
They seem bent on testing how far we're willing to go to exert that strength.
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They are undergoing a leadership transition. Much of the belligerent rhetoric in recent months can be attributed to that. Once they sort that out, North Korea will likely calm down somewhat.

apdst said:
At what cost do we, "avoid conflict"?
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I don't know. But a load of missiles to Burma isn't enough. Will this load of missiles have the slightest impact on American national security? Of course not.
 
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Kandahar said:
I'm sure they're well aware of that.



I don't know. But a load of missiles to Burma isn't enough. Will this load of missiles have the slightest impact on American national security? Of course not.
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Wow! Sounds alot like the argument used to stay out of WW2. Interesting!
 
apdst said:
Wow! Sounds alot like the argument used to stay out of WW2. Interesting!
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So you're saying that we should respond to even the most minor provocation with a nuclear war?
 
Kandahar said:
So you're saying that we should respond to even the most minor provocation with a nuclear war?
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Not at all. Why is that Libbos always interpret things in the most possible way?
 
Kandahar said:
Then what exactly DO you want to do?
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Board the ship; by force if neccessary. If it's suspected of carrying illegal materials, then we have a duty to board and search the vessel.
 
apdst said:
Board the ship; by force if neccessary. If it's suspected of carrying illegal materials, then we have a duty to board and search the vessel.
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And if the ship refuses to stop and/or fires on the American ship?
 
Kandahar said:
And if the ship refuses to stop and/or fires on the American ship?
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That's where the "by force if necessary" bit comes in.
 
The Mark said:
That's where the "by force if necessary" bit comes in.
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And how exactly do they board the ship by force while being fired upon? Is Spiderman in the US Navy now?
 
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Kandahar said:
And if the ship refuses to stop and/or fires on the American ship?
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Then we send that piece of crap to the bottom. It ain't rocket science.
 
apdst said:
Then we send that piece of crap to the bottom. It ain't rocket science.
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And if North Korea responds by executing American reporters or firing missiles at Hawaii?
 
apdst said:
Then we send that piece of crap to the bottom. It ain't rocket science.
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This just displays the same naivite and lack of foreign policy understanding that made the prior administration such a disaster.
 
Kandahar said:
And how exactly do they board the ship by force while being fired upon?
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Uh...destroy the guns/weapons and people doing the firing?
 
The naive Amateur in Chief has turned the US into a mirror image of the UN paper Tiger. Pass a Security Council Resolution and back it up with enforcement in the form of cheap meaningless emptiness, not even tough talk. Why would the US fear enforcing a resolution. Why both passing them in fact why belong to the UN in the first place they hate the US as a group and do nothing around the world. I point to Rwanda Genocide of 1994 as an example where they could have stopped it at the outset and Kofi Annan order the Canadian General on the ground to stand down.
Time to leave the UN and kick them out of the Country and start thinking about our own survival and to hell with the rest unless they are part of NATO and open it up to all countries welling to be part and never be aggressors. The rename it the World Defense Organization.
 
Kandahar said:
And if North Korea responds by executing American reporters or firing missiles at Hawaii?
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Obviously the ability to flex some muscle at North Korea, even if based on false intel, is worth all the potential deaths.
 
Gibberish said:
Obviously the ability to flex some muscle at North Korea, even if based on false intel, is worth all the potential deaths.
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Wait a sec...

Who said that was the case?

If you think it was me, that was not my intention.

I was simply stating what the methods would be if it were decided to stop the vessel in question.
 
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