Rumsfeld wants to move troops out of S. Korea!

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Arrian
Uh-huh, another "go to hell" vote... and look who shows up. Predictable as all hell, CT.

Good connecting the dots.

Predictable, my, my friends always say my playing style at Chess is so boring, but they still lose...

[Ned]

Generically, we should never leave our troops in a country that can defend itself - at least long engough for the US to send in reinforcements. Leaving our troops in SK and Germany is not understandable, unless one truly believes the US is an imperial power.

We should pull our troops out of both SK and Germany and have them stationed in the US.

Good thinking Rumsfeld.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Comrade Tribune


Good connecting the dots.

Predictable, my, my friends always say my playing style at Chess is so boring, but they still lose...

But this isn't Chess and your not winning anything.

[Comrade Tribune]

Originally posted by Sprayber
But this isn't Chess and your not winning anything.

But Arrian´s point was about predictability always being a bad thing.

But I wouldn´t really call myself predictable, anyway; rather, reliable.

[Arrian]

No, actually. I didn't HAVE a point, Comrade.

I was just sniping, which I oughtn't to do. You don't exactly bring out the best in me.

-Arrian

[Odin]

U.S. Troops should pull back to protect Seoul while SK troops concentrate on blowing Kim off the face of the planet.

[GePap]

Withdrwaing all our forces from SKorea would be a unwise move: first of all, by removing the single most powerful sign of US commitment to the defense of SKorea, you force them to find other ways to iunsure their security, ways that might be detremental long term to Us interests: the same could be said of what the Japanese would think.

A troop reduction is fine, but full withdrawl? Not a good idea..and as with many of Rummy's ideas, unlikely to happen anyway.

[Lord Merciless]

US should just pull out of SK, and let those unthankful idiots deal with NK.

But I bet that if US pulls out of SK, China, Japan, and Russia will all make their moves. Watch out for the fireworks then.

[Ned]

LM, Yes, Rumsfeld might be setting up a trap. Ever since Cannae, commanders have been falling back to lure the enemy into a trap. If we induce NK to strike, we certainly will have the moral high ground and probably also will recieve the military support of Russia and China.

[raghar]

Originally posted by Richard Bruns
I still can´t figure out how Pyongyang managed to get the world to believe that we somehow provoked North Korea and are responsible for the current mess. We agreed to ship fuel to them if they stopped building nukes. They start building nukes again, we stop shipping the oil, and then we get blamed for breaking the treaty because of the stopped shipments. Unreal.

So that's your story.

I missed that two unfinished reactors part. You know that reactors that should be build by US. US didn't look like they would be able to meet the deadline, so...
Then again NK didn't attack their neigbours long time. US have different record.

[raghar]

I'm missing possibility to choose both 6 and 4 option.

Poll: should US soldiers leave Germany?

US citizens yes
Germany citizens yes
US soldiers working in Germany no

So US and Germany citizens lost the poll 2:1 well do better next time

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by raghar


So that's your story.

I missed that two unfinished reactors part. You know that reactors that should be build by US. US didn't look like they would be able to meet the deadline, so...
Then again NK didn't attack their neigbours long time. US have different record.

Whom can the NK attack? China? USSR? SK with US support? It's not like they don't want to attack anyone, it's really they don't have anyone they CAN attack.

[raghar]

See? They could be called nearly peacefull neighbour. If US could keep its mouth shut ( Rumsfeld and Bush are sometimes ) they could be on good road to unification with south. Yes road with few strange shapes, but on it.

[Felch]

Originally posted by raghar
See? They could be called nearly peacefull neighbour. If US could keep its mouth shut ( Rumsfeld and Bush are sometimes ) they could be on good road to unification with south. Yes road with few strange shapes, but on it.

Unification would require Kim Il Jung (Or whatever his name is. I'm American and can't be bothered with keeping tinpot dictators straight) to give up power. In other words, it'll happen when Hell freezes over, and AH stops trolling.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Lancer
So, you guys see this NK chess wizard attacking while the US is fighting in Iraq?

Win-hold-win (which is bull**** with 12 Army divisions, let alone 10), was designed specifically around a scenario where the DPRK attacks when the US is decisively committed to a war in another part of the world.

The Pentagon finally admitted it's infeasible bull**** anyway, so now we're at win-pray-kiss those troops' ass goodbye-figure out WTF to do now.

Originally posted by Ned LM, Yes, Rumsfeld might be setting up a trap. Ever since Cannae, commanders have been falling back to lure the enemy into a trap. If we induce NK to strike, we certainly will have the moral high ground and probably also will recieve the military support of Russia and China.

Ned, I hate to tell you this, but you're nuts - even Rumsfeld isn't that stupid, or that loaded with a false sense of strategy. The DPRK has huge amounts of ballistic missiles, rocket and tube artillery pointed south, and if they do attack, the destruction and loss of life on both sides will be absolutely immense. Moral high ground won't matter.