NOYB wrote:
Hehehe. I suppose that same "careful intel work" led Clinton's military
chief of staff to testify in 1998 that N. Korea did not have an active
ballistic missile program...one week before they launched a Taepodong-1
missile over Japan and into the Pacific.

Well, everybody has their off days. Like Rummy firing all the generals
who said we need more force to occupy Iraq, and that it would take years
to pacify. Or Cheney's announcement that the Iraq insurgency is on it's
last legs.

Radiation is hard to hide. Spotting radioactive tailings is one of the
few things satellite spy-eyes are very good at.


Most sources show that the N. Koreans already had a nuke or two in the early
to mid 90's.

Really? Like what soources? And if that's true, then it's Reagan and
Bush Sr's fault, not Clintons.

Yes. We were disgraced and withdrew...

Disgraced? Why?


Because our forces weren't given the chance to finish what they started.
Their CIC pulled them out too soon.

WHAT?!? The only outcome of not pulling out would have been a massacre.


The premature withdrawal was a disgrace.


And you say you "support our troops?" Nice.


Our "troops" didn't make the decision to pull out.

No, the theatre command did. Do you have the slightest clue about C-3
and TO? Don't feel bad, most civilians don't. But you're criticising
actions you don't have the foggiest idea about.

To leave those troops in Mogadishu longer would have meant more deaths,
possibly a total loss... a military castrophe unparalleled even by Pearl
Harbor... great leadership, eh NOBBY?





... and consequently appeared impotent and weak to the Muslim world.

We've appeared impotent & weak, militarily, to most of the world since
Viet Nam. Appearances aren't everything, fortunately.


Nawww. I think the rest of the World stood up and took notice how quickly
and easily we destroyed the World's 4th largest army in 1991.

And left a brutal, genocidal, terrorist-harboring dictator in place.


If the fundamentalist Muslim really thinks we're so weak, why don't they
attack us with military force against military force?


They meant "weak" in the sense that we don't have the guts to finish what we
start once the casualties start to mount.


Casualties are not the goal of a military operation, unless you're a
worshipper of Stonewall Jackson.

DSK