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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:26 PM Aug 2017

I don't buy the "rally around the flag" theory.

If there is a land war in Asia that we start the papers will be full of headlines of thousands of American soldiers killed in the first days of fighting, world markets roiled, and Seoul flattened and Tokyo in imminent danger of a nuclear strike, likely by dirty bombs.

This isn't going to be an easy war like the early stages of both Iraq wars where we blow up their infrastructure with relative impunity and it's orchestrated and watched like a made for tv movie.

This will be the most costly war we have been involved in since WW ll.

That's not DSB's opinion but the opinion of every dispassionate analyst who looks at this:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029440313

Of course if the other loon attacks us or an ally Chump would be justified in responding. I'm hoping/betting/praying Kim is not that stupid/crazy.

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I don't buy the "rally around the flag" theory. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 OP

If anything happens, we better stage the biggest anti-war demonstrations in history, or Squinch Aug 2017 #1

If the Women's March is any indication, I think we could do it. Coventina Aug 2017 #2

Isn't that a line from "The Princess Bride?": "Never start a land war in Asia." Squinch Aug 2017 #3

Here shenmue Aug 2017 #6

Thank you! Squinch Aug 2017 #9

Don't forget Vietnam was a freaking jungle with an agrarian economy. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #4

I agree mcar Aug 2017 #5

Of course we should rally around the flag. Eko Aug 2017 #7

Unfortunately the idiots supporting the head idiot don't know this Bradshaw3 Aug 2017 #8

Americans like short and easy wars. DemocratSinceBirth Aug 2017 #10

Squinch

(51,004 posts)

1. If anything happens, we better stage the biggest anti-war demonstrations in history, or

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:29 PM

Aug 2017

we will deserve anything that comes at us.

If we don't somehow prevent the murder of hundreds of thousands for no reason other than to slake that asshole's ego problems, we are done. We will never recover.

Coventina

(27,172 posts)

2. If the Women's March is any indication, I think we could do it.

Reply to Squinch (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:30 PM

Aug 2017

Land wars in Asia are never a good idea.

Squinch

(51,004 posts)

3. Isn't that a line from "The Princess Bride?": "Never start a land war in Asia."

Reply to Coventina (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:32 PM

Aug 2017

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

6. Here

Reply to Squinch (Reply #3)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:42 PM

Aug 2017

Squinch

(51,004 posts)

9. Thank you!

Reply to shenmue (Reply #6)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:49 PM

Aug 2017

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

4. Don't forget Vietnam was a freaking jungle with an agrarian economy.

Reply to Coventina (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:32 PM

Aug 2017

South Korea is a densely populated industrial democracy.

mcar

(42,372 posts)

5. I agree

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 08:33 PM

Aug 2017

The Trump cult members will support but not much more.

Eko

(7,351 posts)

7. Of course we should rally around the flag.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:27 PM

Aug 2017

Just not their rally, our own of peace and logic. Not their rally of madness.

Bradshaw3

(7,529 posts)

8. Unfortunately the idiots supporting the head idiot don't know this

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 09:41 PM

Aug 2017

I guarantee you they think we drop a bomb or two and it's all over. They don't know how close Seoul is so close to the DMZ or that NK has a million man army and 7M in reserve, or that a nuclear strike probably wouldn't take out Kim or the brass, or that there are more than 100,000 Americans in SK. And if they did probably wouldn't matter. Most of them would rally around the flag out of ignorance - until it started affecting them.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

10. Americans like short and easy wars.

Reply to Bradshaw3 (Reply #8)

Thu Aug 10, 2017, 10:03 PM

Aug 2017

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