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MOAB story
On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:59:12 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 4/17/2017 2:45 PM, Poco Deplorevole wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 13:42:10 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 08:44:16 -0400, Poco Deplorevole wrote: ISIS influence could be blunted with some education and Kim would not last a week if his people actually understood the lie. Educate who? How? While you may be right about Kim's people, Kim has a huge Army to ensure his people do as he says. As long as he keeps his generals happy, he's got the population under his thumb. These regimes only survive because they can perpetuate the lie. I don't disagree with that. But, how do you educate the population to the truth? It's not as simple as cleaning up one of Harry's lies on rec.boats. While I was in Korea a North Korean fighter pilot defected to the south. He scared the **** out of a lot of folks at Osan Air Base, but it was able to land. Under questioning, the pilot stated he started thinking of defecting because of a package of Ramen soup mix he'd found on a beach. He couldn't believe that such a thing existed. Now, there may have been some embellishment, I don't know. But that's the word that came to the Combined Forces Command Hq. It does demonstrate just how cut off the NK population is from the rest of the world. As we used to say in the Navy, the following are "no ****" stories. When I went to China in 1986 the bathroom in the yet to be officially opened hotel had towels that appeared to be neatly folded to a width of about 8 inches and hanging on a rack. When I grabbed one, I realized it really *was* only 8 inches wide. I asked our Chinese host why they were so narrow. He laughed and then told me that the Chinese manufacturers of towels had only seen pictures of what Western or European towels looked like hanging on a holder and assumed they were only that wide. The day before I left the host took me to a shop to do some shopping for gifts to bring back home. As I walked from display counter to display counter I realized a growing crowd of little Chinese kids were following me, staring at me. I asked my host what they found so interesting. Again he laughed and said, "Richard, you have to understand that you are the first Caucasian they have ever seen and you look very strange to them". I believe every bit of it. Army talk: The difference between a 'war story' and a fairy tale. A fairy tale starts, "Once upon a time..." A war story starts, "This ain't no ****, but..." Old memories. |
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