Norad goes on heightened state of alert

[Flip McWho]

Gee I hope everything at Stargate Command is fine and dandy.

[snoopy369]

Hmm. A base in CA, a base in FL, and the home command center.

Perhaps we're concerned that the Space Shuttle might need some help landing?

[Lancer]

The only rational explanation is invasion by locust like brain sucking aliens from space.

[Ecthy]

Lancer's locust alien conspiracy

The NK missile issue has been going on for weeks now. But maybe your base is just preparing for an immediate launch.

[notyoueither]

It would be sort of interesting if NK fired a test missile...

and then it got shot down.

No need to report it in the NYT.

Kim knows, and anyone important knows. Let the rest guess.

[Ecthy]

It would be funnier if the US attempt to shoot it down failed. Seconds later, Japan and SK are hell.

[/armchair general]

[notyoueither]

You're not going to hear about a failed attempt, and neither will Kim.

And then nothing would stop missiles from hitting Japan or South Korea, aside from the 'do it and your country is glass' defence.

[Ecthy]

No media attention to missile shootdown action?

[notyoueither]

I would doubt it in either case.

Success and the usual 'allies' start talking ****.

Lack of success and everyone starts talking ****.

It's best that results are known only to people who need to know, and we certainly don't need to know.

[Ecthy]

You're one submissive 'citizen'.

[notyoueither]

Call it modern YAD (You're Assured of Destruction).

Mister third world power might have nukes, and missiles, but does he use them?

Does he know they will even land?

If he gambles and loses he and his country begin to glow in the dark, and the US is never touched.

If he wins he and his country begin to glow in the dark, and the US is severely pissed off and liable to make other places glow.

You tell me who wins and loses.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Ecthy
You're one submissive 'citizen'.

I'm not a citizen, just an interested observer with a good seat for a long while wrt the Yanks.

[Ecthy]

Ah, for a second I forgot you're not a yank. And yet, why would anyone support the notion that we need not know everything? Are you afraid of your own ability to make a free decision?

[notyoueither]

You think what the Yanks do with BMD is in any way your decision?

And yes, there are things best known only to people who need to know them. Defence and intelligence matters number among the few.

[notyoueither]

Although, I'm sure some people in Germany would have been much happier if Enigma had been talked about in the London Times in the early '40's.