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he's not stupid enough to provoke China
Originally posted by phatpackage
reply to post by gnosticquasar
he's not stupid enough to provoke China
If this scenario did play out as the OP said it would be China doing the provoking not Obama. He is in the right to stand his ground. Should he stop the exercise just because China said no way?. That would be rather cowardly! But this all just talk lets see what happens before we get into it!
Originally posted by SeekerofTruth101
Events had been successfully manipulated for war by others. This is no longer the simple tried and tested method of sinking a soveriegn ship, but a direct attack upon a soveriegn nation admitted in full by the adversary.
Humanity once face a similar situation in our recent past. We backed down. And resulted in the deaths of million innocent jews as well as the horrific loss of lives of our precious loved ones fighting against tyranny. Today will be no different. History is about to repeat itself in everyone's eyes, more so the awakened.
There can no longer be a backing down. The Rubicon had been crossed. Words of honour will have to be honoured from today or the masses' elected will only had proven themselves liars. The dice had been tossed...let how the dice falls....destiny awaits....
Originally posted by MadDogtheHunter
I'll be watching this one. I don't trust China one least bit. Can't trust a Communist state.edit on 11/28/2010 by MadDogtheHunter because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SaturnFX
Hmm..
What is worse for a presidental ratings...backing down a bit and appearing weak...or being the one whom pushed it a bit and in turn the world got a global nuclear apocolypse
guessing either are not good for poll numbers.
What, are these damn games that important that common sense takes a holiday?
They could stop the games or simply move them a little away from NK
the US likes trouble..