Your subtitle was cruel but funny.

Why did you have to make me laugh at something like this?


I hope something can be done about N Korea, a war doesn't help when already most of the people there are starving.

:facepalm:

This quote is so cliche and old

I really wish people would stop using it

You guys sound so bored your ITCHING for the bombs to start dropping. It's.. scary.

The solution is simple; get some http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Marine, http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Siege_tank, http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Hellion, http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Vulture, http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Wraith, and http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Banshee, and equip the South Korean military with them. Within a week the DPRK would be nothing more than a memory.

Maybe this is the era of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Hawk once again.

Never know, humans can do some pretty stupid stuff when they are bored.

Yeah, cuz you know, history never repeats itself or anything.

Different circumstances.

And just because something happened in the past, doesn't mean it's certain to "repeat itself".

I agree, some people sound too eager to cry doom.

Doom is very fun to say you know. Say it with me:

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Was this your attitude during the arms race?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ

psst its a link

i may be wrong, but i think that the above quote is pretty appropriate.

And within that week, assuming that NK's claims are true, South Korea starts to glow in the dark.

Okay I'm curious. How does something happening or not happening in the past, have any bearing on what will or will not happen in the future?

If you bought a hammer in the past, then you can hammer in a nail tomorrow.
If you didn't buy a hammer in the past, then you wont be able to hammer in that nail untl you go and get a hammer.

This is history "repeating itself" though.

If you bought a hammer in the past, then you're assured of buying another hammer in the future.

This doesnt make any sense. Lets say I buy a hammer yesterday and get hit by a bus today and die, when am I buying this future hammer?

Exactly, it doesn't make any sense.

Beneficial to the United States, but not to China.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/world/asia/24beijing.html

“At the moment China has limited influence,” said Cai Jian, a professor of Korean studies at Fudan University. “On one hand it’s unhappy with North Korean actions and its provocative behavior, but on the other hand it still has to support North Korea.”

The support continues because China fears that the vacuum created by a sudden collapse there would open the door to rule by South Korea, “and that will put an American military alliance on the doorstep of China.”

...

“No matter whether it be within the party, among the people, or even within the military, China has grown increasingly sick and tired of North Korea’s rogue politics,” said a senior Chinese media commentator, who asked not to be named because of the delicacy of the issue. “But strategically, China’s kidnapped by it.”



China is the biggest energy consumer and rising economic power. So speaking of long-term economic benefits, what's good for China is good for the global economy.

Die a lot

Your not factoring in odds. You literary think history is repeating. I had a gigantic post written up but it was going past four paragraphs mark. This probably won't convince you but look at trends in history. Often cycles of calm and war(and/or disaster) repeat. The longer each cycle lasts the less likely it is to perpetuation. But given the complexities of the universe and just humanity alone it is impossible to draw out in advance any specified time of what constitutes one of these cycles. Now I won't leave out the chance that the impossible happens and the long odds have somehow happened and we never see major war break out upon this planet again. That IS a possibility. An incredibly unlikely one from a human viewpoint. This leaves us with a pattern that these things do in fact happen as it is intrinsic to the nature of humans (or something else). History repeats, but we just don't know when or how. If it never repeated how the hell could we still be in a time of calm or war at all. It would be a perpetuation of infinitely new variables constantly changing with never the same thing. It is in fact not that (as far as anyone can tell.) We can through various means attempt to make educated guesses as it is probability, but at the end of the day we can never actually be certain. I will end saying it could if you zoom out at the big picture look just as silly to take either view point, but for this we are limiting probabilities to a human scope. I think that's as simple as I can make my idea.

Edit
Given what I know of human nature I'm siding with the history repeats itself at least in this case of the debate. Given the actual political situation I think it's unlikely that any actual major fight will break out.

Won't matter if South Korea builds enough bunkers

No, I know what he means. But it doesn't mean the cycle has to go on forever.

In that case Ill agree with you as well. Huzzah for brain power. :grad: