Tensions continued to rise on the Korean Peninsula today, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following up the latest North Korean threats of war with a pledge to see “retaliatory” acts taken against the reclusive nation.
“This was an unacceptable provocation by North Korea and the international community has a responsibility and a duty to respond,” Clinton insisted, repeating similar comments she made last week in the wake of a South Korean report blaming the North for the sinking of the Cheonan warship. North Korea has denied the allegations.
But as with her previous comments, Secretary Clinton was big on rhetoric and short on specifics, once again underscoring the difficulty for the US to respond in any practical way to North Korea, which is already sanctions to the point of being a virtual pariah state.
Moreover, while Clinton insisted on an “international” response she has already failed to convince China to join in whatever UN Security Council measures the US plans, meaning the US retaliation will likely consist of several more speeches of increasing bellicosity, interspersed with North Korean responses.
Joke 3455: Having consulted with Bene Gesserit Elders including Sisters Albright and Rice, Mother Superior Madame Clinton made the hypercubic hexagon with her right foot and threatened to retaliate against North Korea by bombing Brasilia.
I enjoy your comments very much Costa. Do you think that the sinking of the S Korean ship is a smokescreen being used to lure China into a confrontatoin?
Is Clinton's talk the talk of a responsible person? Who is allowing her to talk like that? Why hasn't Obama put a muzzle on her yet? Well, we probably can already surmise the answers, but the last thing U.S.A. and the rest of the planet needs is a two front war.
Obama won't muzzle her because she's nicely stating the policy of this government. Which of course hasn't changed a lick since it was Bush's policy.
Doesn't it seem as if one could make a 'morphing' video of SOS Rice and SOS Hillary saying the same exactly the same things about N. Korea? Did anything really change when we voted for a different policy?
Sounds like Clinton is trying to out-Dada the North Korean Foreign Ministry.
There is extant an interview or film of one Kim Jong-Il's ex-bodyguards, as one recalls, who later defected to South Korea.
He says in one stretch (fere); "He made it clear we each were to sacrifice his life for him…We would wake up in the morning, and he had us hitting things all day. Once I remember breaking nine bricks."
When he mentions the bricks, he pauses, seems to reflect to himself for a micro-second or two, and lets out along chuckle.
That long unguarded chuckle is worth a thousand words and libraries of mediocre intelligence analysis.
This is the problem with the United States setting up trip wires all over the world that can bring us into a war that is of no vital interest to The United States. South Korea can defend itself. And isn't it amazing that the Israelis can attack an American Ship, the USS Liberty, and for forty threee years nothing has ever been done, nor will anything ever be done, but here the wild woman wants to go about retaliating for the attack on a South Korean ship.
why does a woman with a child want to put her own daughter in jeopardy. i fail to understand her mindset. we are all of us sitting on powdwer keg. sounds like she is eager to strike the match! disgusting!
"Our society produces schizos the same way it produces Prell shampoo or Ford cars, the only difference being that the schizos are not salable." [Deleuze & Guattari]
Chelsea's 10,000 miles from the DMZ. It's other people whose kids will die. It's always other people's kids.
And who 'retaliates' against Israel in what it does to the Palestinians? And who retaliates against the US for 'waging aggressive war' against Iraq and Afghanistan? Hillary Clinton is an idiot and a moron!
She, like Obama says what their Israeli puppet masters tell them.
I am so tired of this sullen, bellicose, power-mad little wench. Her rants may be good for GE, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin, but they'll be disastrous for the rest of us.
Why are we even in Korea? Get out now and let the Koreans figure out their own issues.
Lets just leave South Korea. Let Mexico or Canada station troops there if they want.
Please, we need another war.
After all, the Iraq war is no longer the shiny and new fun toy to play with that it once was.
In Afghanistan, we've already recycled the older boys toys and let the new boy have some fun with it. But the new coat of paint that was put on that old toy is now chipped and cracked and the spoiled American war-boys are demanding a shiny new toy.
We've given them Pakistan, but we don't really let the war-boys play with it openly. Officially that toy belongs to the Pakistani war-boys, and our war-boys only get to tell them how to play with it. Even letting our war-boys kill by remote control in this war toy isn't satisfying enough to them.
We keep promising them Iran. But that war toy has some sharp edges and bits that could break off and get stuck in a young war boys mouth and choke him, so we seem reluctant to give our war-boys this new toy, no matter how much they scream for it from the shopping cart.
So, mama Hillary is out shopping for a new war toy she can give her crying war boys before they throw a fit in the middle of the store eilse.
Where the hell was this loud mouthed rabid ugly Bitc* when the USS Liberty was shot down by her masters, which happened to be an American ship with Americans on it. That woman should be muzzled.
With a "friend" like Israel, America doesn't need any enemies.
it seems that Hillary has not seen the evidence showing that the torpedo is not North Korean. This can be seen at willyloman.wordpress.com and shows that actual design difference between what was dredged up and the North Korean specifications. No need to guess which country does have torpedoes like those shown. The usual suspect.
For President William Clinton's visit to mainland China in 1997–was it–one recalls the mainlanders built a special mobile toilet specifically for First Lady Hillary Clinton so that she could tour in the style to which she had become accustomed.
As one also recalls, schedule conflicts prevented Mrs.Clinton from ever using it.
One has somehow since lost track of the outhouse. Was it being held in reserve in Madame Clinton's recent visit to China? Or does diplomatic protocol limit such precious tributes strictly to sitting First Ladies?
was that a cold hearted strike or meiely a retailatory blow,wasn't thare a incident right out recent pulp fiction range,about a couple months ago,a matter of internecine pride,conflauhg-erated,just asking,OO,,,_?,on & on the antaganisum(?) rolls,farmed & tooled
"The disappearance of four North Korean submarines in the sea off the Peninsula has rattled the South's military. Sources in the Seoul government quoted in the South Korean press said the subs left their base in the North on Monday and went off radar. 't is rare for four North Korean subs to disappear at once,' said one military commander…."
The Independent
Wheels within wheels within wheels.
(1) Four NK subs supposedly go off radar, a "rare event".
(2) Okay, does that mean that the supposed NK "German torpedo" was fired from an NK sub and was it on radar or off?
(3) Or was it fired from Madame Clinton's outhouse purchased by the North Koreans from the Chinese and refitted as an underwater attack Kim Il-Jong brick shithouse?
Curious Communist Chinese want to know.
Pardon the Rabelais–at times only an authentic "merde" does the job, even in presently emasculated American English.
You don't use Radar to track Submarines anyway, you use Sonar(in this case US Spy Satellites were likely also used) . North Korea's Navy is not as well equipped as the US Navy, they use small Submarines with limited capabilities in relatively large numbers to compensate for their lack of powerful surface ships(they can equip 20 of their Submarines with crews when the US and South Korean Navies need this number of people just to equip 1 Destroyer).
4 Submarines leaving base is not abnormal, they could be new Submarines going through testing after construction or it could be new crews receiving training or the Submarines could be moving to a new base.
Either way I don't believe North Korea was involved. The sinking of the South Korean Warship occurred during US/South Korea Navy war games, close to but not within North Korea's territorial waters, near a US Military base, and close to a US Warship designed to lay mine fields. I don't think there was any North Korean torpedo.