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To: marcos who wrote (23)1/16/2003 1:34:07 AM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 273
 
but at what cost in blood
Maybe you should ask that of the NK gov't.

and to whom
North Korea will be by far the worst loser.

Cut the crap. The NK gov't has been the one making the wild threats and charges.

this is very close to the chinese and the japanese and the south koreans
Yeah. That's why the would like the NK gov't taken care of. They've got a loose cannon in the back yard.

did you know NK has over ten thousands pieces of heavy long-range artillery trained on Seoul?
What do you think 5 or 10 500 kiloton nukes would do to them?

Bush starts anything up, and five millions die, quite likely more
Wanna bet?

but do you want to take the bet
Yeah, I'll fade you on this one.

both sides perceived the other to be more imperialistically ambitious than they in fact were
maybe not, too. You're just extrapolating from the outcome. The outcome was good because the Communists were held off by Western power for 45 years until they collapsed.

those of us who didn't subscribe to the religions with their dogma of -isms thought it was pretty bloody stupid
Would you prefer that the Soviets won?
Yeah, you just might.

But honestly: If the outcome were up to you and you had to choose between the USSR and the USA, which would you pick as the victor?

those who lost family in the various proxy wars along the way thought it something quite worse than that
War is Hell. Get used to it.