Presidential Choice...Too take the Rocket out or Not

[R G]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510504,00.html


So what would you do? Let's say you are the President. You know that the North Koreans are about to test fire a rocket that has the potential to be an ICBM. You also know that you have the capablity to shoot the rocket out of the sky.

What would you do? Do you let the North Koreans test fire the rocket which could potentially be used for an ICBM without any action?

Or do you demonstate to the North Koreans and to the rest of the world that the US does in fact have the capablity to shoot down a potential nuclear threat? Of course doing this may have some reprecusions....You could fail and be a complete embarassment....You could succeed and North Korea could consider this as an act of war.

Just glad I am not President and to be quite frank I am kind of torn on what I would do.


Or Butcher's choiceOr nuke everyone but us:rolleyes:


Soooooooo What would you do?

[The Butcher]

Nuke everyone but us.

(sorry hool)

[R G]

That wasn't a choice....:dry:

[The Butcher]

Should be :(

[Tama Drummer]

Hmm, I'd probably just use change and hope.

But really, I dunno. That's why I'm not president.

[R G]

Ok I will add it just for you.... :P

[Wizzy`]

I would shoot the rocket out of the sky.
North Koreans might get angry, so i'd also nuke North Korea.

[meat.eater]

Nothing. I don't think the Koreans would like that very much. Nukes are expensive. And they're certainly entitled to test their own weaponry--we certainly do. As long as they arent blowing up civilians, I don't care.

[R G]

Nothing. I don't think the Koreans would like that very much. Nukes are expensive. And they're certainly entitled to test their own weaponry--we certainly do. As long as they arent blowing up civilians, I don't care.



Playing Devil's advocate here....Wouldn't shooting down a test fire of a satellite be testing weaponry too?....sure it's another nations.

[meat.eater]

Are you referring to something specific? if you are, I havent heard of it.

[R G]

I linked the story....There are rumors of the US actually considering shooting that rocket down.

[meat.eater]

That would also be terrible.

We don't need to shoot anything down unless it's in our direct harm. Test firing a rocket is like the step before the step before the step that could potentially lead to direct harm. And that's a really stupid guessing game to be a part of.

I don't think North Korea would be stupid enough to nuke the US.

[R G]

That would also be terrible.

We don't need to shoot anything down unless it's in our direct harm. Test firing a rocket is like the step before the step before the step that could potentially lead to direct harm. And that's a really stupid guessing game to be a part of.

I don't think North Korea would be stupid enough to nuke the US.

Playing devils advocate again...Wouldn't shooting down the nuke be a message to North Korea that it's kind of pointless to build nuclear weapons if they are simply shot down.

Quite a paradox really.

[meat.eater]

No, I think shooting down an 100 million + dollar missile of North Korea's would only piss them off. Even if that doesn't lead to war (because we can shoot down everything they fire at us--which I also find hard to believe, we're not impenetrable... there are factors of error and surprise), it's going to lead to terrorism or any other kinds of violence... and it certainly wont help our politics.

If we learned anything from our previous administration: having a trigger finger doesn't help anything. We're not the world police. We don't get to decide if other countries can test their weapons that they built with their own money. That's asking for more enemies than we already have.

I'm sick of the US being so active in other countries war efforts. We didn't used to do that. We're blurring the lines between being diplomatically active and aggressively active. We used to be incredibly passive and let everyone else figure out what the hell they were doing. Then, when we finally did get attacked, we had the highest US military support in history, with the highest enrolments, and the biggest war victory in this planet's history. Instead, we're doing all of this preventative crap (which ultimately is a crap shoot as to whether it will work or not--see: 8 years ago), getting other countries and the UN to hate us because we're being overly involved.

We learned the lessen of under-involvement after world war 1 (because it caused WW2). Eventually we're going to have to learn the lesson of over-involvement (which Iraq didn't do--I was hoping it would). America needs to worry about America more. Not North Korea.

[R G]

Understand that the missle is going to self destruct anyway....

But I certainly see your points.

[Wizzy`]

No, I think shooting down an 100 million + dollar missile of North Korea's would only piss them off. Even if that doesn't lead to war (because we can shoot down everything they fire at us--which I also find hard to believe, we're not impenetrable... there are factors of error and surprise), it's going to lead to terrorism or any other kinds of violence... and it certainly wont help our politics.

If we learned anything from our previous administration: having a trigger finger doesn't help anything. We're not the world police. We don't get to decide if other countries can test their weapons that they built with their own money. That's asking for more enemies than we already have.

I'm sick of the US being so active in other countries war efforts. We didn't used to do that. We're blurring the lines between being diplomatically active and aggressively active. We used to be incredibly passive and let everyone else figure out what the hell they were doing. Then, when we finally did get attacked, we had the highest US military support in history, with the highest enrolments, and the biggest war victory in this planet's history. Instead, we're doing all of this preventative crap (which ultimately is a crap shoot as to whether it will work or not--see: 8 years ago), getting other countries and the UN to hate us because we're being overly involved.

We learned the lessen of under-involvement after world war 1 (because it caused WW2). Eventually we're going to have to learn the lesson of over-involvement (which Iraq didn't do--I was hoping it would). America needs to worry about America more. Not North Korea.

lesson*
hehe

[bloodreign]

Outright, Americas meddling is an act of war- They deem themselfs the world police and the "authority" both moraly and phylisophicaly..who has what weapons and what "potential" they could be used for.


It doesnt matter to them that it is a satelite launch, USA wants to remain dominator there too.


Looks like they want to take out the missile regardless of koreas intentions
Just simply hang back and see if this missile suceeds in it's launch... if it varies in trajectory/ and is proven upon detonation to be a nuke device ...war is on.

[meat.eater]

lesson*
hehe

Congratulations.

[Wizzy`]

Congratulations.

Stop being such an unhappy person.

[meat.eater]

I just congratulated you! That's happy! :)

[Matt 34.5]

I tried to rep Wizzy's first post but I couldn't. I never know if my last rep for wizzy was a pos or a neg. Anyways the post made me lol.

And isn't it "lessen"? as in to make less, and apposed to "Lesson" like learning?

P.S. Screw you, Butch.

[Wizzy`]

pretty sure he meant lesson <.<

[pils]

We're not the world police.
But the UN is, and they said that North Korea isn't allowed to have any ballistic activity what-so-ever.
America isn't the only country threatening to take down that missile/satellite.

[Matt 34.5]

You're right..

[The AIDS Virus]

Tell the British to deal with it. I'm tired of their elitist bs.