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North Korea Launches "Communication Satellite" Rocket
Mad Ivan writes "The BBC has just reported that North Korea has launched a long-range rocket, which they say is a communications satellite, but that the US and Japan fear may actually be a ballistic missile. Details are still arriving; the rocket passed over northern Japan on its way up."
Banned by who? The countries which already have them? Where do one sign up?
Whatever it's about environment, peoples rights, weapons or whatever the same rules apply: Clean up in your own backyard or shut the fuck up!
North Korean bombers, or as we call them "paper airplanes with vicious loogies on the tip."
Sorry, I just can't get worked up over this so-called threat. I grew up in the cold war and back then we had the soviets. After that, all this "terrorism" and "rogue state" shit is just yawn.
Wake me up when someone important starts launching real missiles.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
So hey, keep let's keep blowing our wad in Afghanistan. Thanks Mr. Obama.
Yes looking back into the times when American Presidents fantasized about "winning a nuclear war", and with attack plans which would have wiped out European cities more or less completely, a single madman really does not scare me, even if i am living in Japan. Having lived in a time when we learned to evacuate the elementary school in case of an attack using WMD, living in the center of a conflict, 150km away from the iron fence, in a town which contained a not so small American base, which would have most likely made the town a primary target in case of a war, where both sides together for sure had demonstrated that they possess (at least) a million times the nuclear firepower North Korea has demonstrated (their demonstration was a failure) today, somehow puts this into the right relation about *what* i worry.
What's important now is determining the likelihood that an aggressive nation bent on insane policy will use nuclear weapons on their neighbors... oh, wait, that seems to describe North Korea.
Whatever, it's as stupid as giving Truman nukes or Bush tanks and bomb planes ...
Yeah, whatever, mod me troll, I just want to get my point out and I will no matter what.
Anyway, lots of countries have nukes and eventually behave badly thanks to the extra insurance they give them.
The funny thing about multiple countries having nukes is the simple fact that it prevents any one country from behaving too badly. The human race is an aggressive, territorial, vengeful species. That's how we evolved, and it's how we're going to be until the term "economic scarcity" no longer has any meaning. Study it. Learn it. Live it.
There is a reason you continue to be modded down to negative numbers... perhaps you should invest some time in actually studying history, and less time in attempting to paint yourself as some sort of learned man on a mission to educate the world.
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You know, it _doesn't matter_ if this launch was for a communications satellite. Just because this rocket contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if the Mexicans crossing the border were smuggling pot or not. Just because this van contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
North Korea doesn't have the spare money to spend on building their own satellite launching systems when it's so much cheaper to buy a satellite launch from someone else.
That is called dependence, and is also the reason that the US is developing a space program. Why not simply rely on the Russians? Does the US have the resources for Constellation? How many starving people live in the US?
Lock the wife and the dog in the boot of the car.
Return one hour later.
Who's happy to see you?
You know, it _doesn't matter_ if the Mexicans crossing the border were smuggling pot or not. Just because this van contained a benign payload, doesn't mean the next one will.
Sounds valid to me, you don't want smugglers to get across your borders unchecked, no matter what they transport or if they're even just saying hello to their aunt. A vulnerability is a vulnerability, whether it's being exploited or not.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Um, the Halabja poison gas attacks certainly were WMDs, while when we invaded we didn't find any, we can certainly know that they used to have them. The fact that the US government had bad intelligence does not equate to brainwashing. How many propaganda signs do you find? Heck, in the example that you stated were there any billboards saying "Iraq has WMDs. We must crush Iraq."? Just because we went to war on faulty intentions doesn't mean that we were brainwashed.
Fucking American historical revisionism. I can remember the arguments I had in 2002 and 2003 with fucking Americans where they insisted that Saddam was lying, that Iraq had lots of WMDs, and that they believed the US fucking government who were implying he was going to use them against the US.
Meanwhile, weapons inspectors were providing no evidence, the CIA, MI6 and Mossad were providing no evidence and no fucker else was providing any evidence that Saddam had WMDs.
Sure, we knew he used to have them - we knew where he bought them, if you haven't conveniently forgotten that one. We also had no compelling evidence that he still had them, and even less evidence that he was ever planning to use them on the US. The only thing Saddam had was oil.
I'm not pretending North Korea is some haven for sanity, but please, don't insult our intelligence by pretending there was a case for invading Iraq, let alone one based on WMD.
Based on the fact that I believe that every human has the right to basic freedoms, I can easily conclude that the USA is much better than North Korea.
Given the recent US record on human rights the rest of the world has already concluded that the USA has no fucking place telling anybody else how to run a country.
You fail utterly. Didn't even check that your URL was correct before you submitted did you? Seppuku is the only honorable option left for you.
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