Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (199039)	8/24/2006 9:51:19 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<the US has pledged to assist> As an army of occupation, the US from day one had the responsibility to restore civil order and civil services and to secure the borders of Iraq. No fudge factor there. The US failed in miserable fashion.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (199039)	8/24/2006 12:32:53 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Ms. Hawkette, you have gone completely insane. The following statement shows that you have no grasp whatsoever on reality. Run, do not walk to the nearest psychiatrist or scientology center depending on your leanings. Remember that we're NO LONGER in Iraq as an occupier, because that DULY ELECTED GOVERNMENT has requested COALITION forces remain to assist in restoring internal/external security. Israel, the US, the UN et al have recognized the legitimacy of Hezbollah by including them in the ceasefire. Go yell at the nitwit Neocons. Talking about exporting terrorism, what about the Bushies bestest friends THE SAUDIS? What about Bush simply ignoring Osama? Impeach! Your logic doesn't even stand up for an entire morning. Israel created Hezbollah in the first place, Israel pushed for the Syrians to leave creating a power vacuum and now Israel has further emboldened Hezbollah. With Israel around to defeat itself, who needs Hezbollah? Yet again, you're confusing Lebanon with a lackey state of Israel. Your logic and that of others on this thread is, if the world would just do YOUR BIDDING we would all get along. Ms. Hawkette, your standards are disasterously low. You give a pass to rightwing incompetents and, in fact, support them vociferously. Like so many whining rightwingers, you have very high expectations of the behavior of others but extremely low or nonexistent standards for your own behavior. Why is that?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (199039)	8/24/2006 12:45:28 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Where is the Crown Prince? August 24, 2006: Who's to be Crown Prince? Kim Jong-il, the rather strange dictator who has ruled the "People's Democratic Republic of Korea" since the death of his father, Kim Il-sung, in 1994, is over 65. For approximately six weeks beginning on July 4th he was out of circulation, making no public or televised appearances. This protracted absence from the public eye, linked with an increasingly haggard appearance in some recent pictures, has suggested to some analysts that he's got to speculate that his health is not good. Kim has no publicly designated successor. Given the extraordinary cult of personality that the Kims have built since his father took over the leadership of the Korean Communist Party in 1945, a "constitutional" succession would certainly go to one of his sons. Kim has three: Kim Jong-nam ( 35), who is a half-brother to Kim Jong-chol ( 25) and his full brother Kim Jong-un ( 22). The youngest son is apparently Papa Kim's favorite, but there have been no indications that he has groomed any of them succeed to power in the even of his death or disability. Even if Kim has secretly named one of his sons to succeed him, there's no reason to assume the other two might not dispute the choice. A dispute among the brothers over the succession could provide an opportunity for a political or military coup by disaffected elements in the North Korean leadership. The mass of the North Korean people remain in abject poverty, famine stalks the land. Government response to devastating damage caused by recent torrential rains proved wholly ineffective, and the country is almost totally isolated internationally. Dissatisfaction seems to be increasing, and to be manifesting itself publicly more than at other time in recent decades. And of late there have been reports that in occasional very private discussions with Chinese government or military officials, some senior North Korean political and military leaders have expressed surprising criticism of the Kims' custodianship of the country. The days of the Kim Dynasty may be numbered. August 23, 2006: North Korea's rhetoric, which has been pretty shrill and bombastic for over half a century, has gotten even more incomprehensible of late. No one knows why, but now the North Koreans are claiming the right to make a "pre-emptive attack." The cause of all this are joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises (some of them only involving computer simulations), that have been going on for over 30 years. The North Koreans appear to believe these exercises are preparations for an impending attack on them. It's hard to tell what these North Korean broadcasts are trying to say, because so many of them have been repeated endlessly for decades, with no follow-up. strategypage.com