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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:25:40 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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So you don't think Kim moving from WWII Soviet surplus Nagant rifles
and a few aging migs to a nuke and a missile that they tested by
shooting over Japan is troubling?
That is not a worse situation? In spite of us keeping 50,000 troops
there for 57 years. Did we make it better or worse. If we had just
come home, they would have finished their civil war and followed the
Chinese example of joining the world.


I do think it's troubling, but since you're insistent about the specifics
of
military adventure, no deaths have occurred this year.

As I said, we've pretty much kept the peace. They claim a lot, but they do
very little.


We may haver somewhat "kept the peace" if you considered Kim sinking a
ship a couple months ago "peaceful" but strategically we lost ground.
The regional threat is exponentially worse that it ever was.
Even if Kim's bomb doesn't work, he can still contaminate a whole city
with radiation and effectively destroy it.
If that is Seoul it is horrible. If it is Tokyo it is a catastrophe

Why would there be a difference in horribleness between the two?

In any case, no Americans have died since 1953, which is what you were
claiming as better off.