jlf1961
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Joined: 6/10/2008 From: Somewhere Texas Status: offline
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The fact that Kim blinked first is good for Trump, in fact, while everyone was condemning his actions for his choice of words, I would remind people to look to JFK during the Cuban missile crisis. Okay, granted, JFK combined strong talk with a bit of military strong arm tactics (forcing a Soviet sub to the surface pretty much told Moscow he was not playing games) and using Crusaders as recon aircraft pretty much told everyone that US attack planes could get through Cuban air defense and do low passes over the country at whim. Okay, we lost a U2, but out of nine pairs of Crusaders that buzzed missile construction sites, we lost zero. The most damage was some 20 mm hits on two aircraft. I am sure the soviet ground commander made that fact known to Moscow, something along the lines of: "These Americans are fucking nuts, they are sending unarmed attack craft in to take recon photos and before we can get SAM lock, they gone. If they decide to send armed flights against these sites, we be fucked. Comrade, you might consider the president of the US is a fucking crazy yankee bastard who will get us all blown to capitalist hell." In this case some Korean general probably said. "Beloved leader, the US president is a fucking crazy ass New Yorker who will not hesitate to get us blown to capitalist hell so he can buy real estate options in our devastated country for a new golf course resort."
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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