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To: GST who wrote (145178)	9/9/2004 11:38:23 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

>>>Because it lost time and squandered resources, the United States now has no good options for dealing with either country. It has fewer deployable soldiers and weapons; it has less international leverage through the "soft power" of its alliances and treaties; it even has worse intelligence, because so many resources are directed toward Iraq.>>> More Bullfroth? What do you think we are getting for the new military spending? More and better equipment, more trained soldiers, and far better intelligence with the cooperation of other Nations intelligence agencies. We have lost options in dealing with N Korea?. What options have we lost- military invasion troops.? Hey, I thought you were strictly against military options. We now have an underemployed navy, 10 Carriers, 50 subs, and all the military aircraft used at the start of the war. Replenished arsenals of cruise missiles, bombs and new Predators. If N Korea needs some form of military intervention, it will not be accomplished by spending a year massing 500k or 1 mm troops in S Korea for a ground invasion. Their above-ground facilities could merely be turned into dust But neither of those is likely to occur, and there are far better options to pursue first. Sig.