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Largo
Sport climber
The Big Wide Open Face
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War funnels the sweat and equity of common people into the hands of those running the military industrial complex. The fed generates money. Labor generates money. This is a siphon.
Crazy thing is anyone proffering this POV is earmarked a quack, an unralistic thinker, misinformed, and at all junctures their credibility is questioned. But the fact remains that if governments stood NO CHANCE of profiting from war, that in fact it would cost the Halliburton's of the world a fortune, meaning it no longer was a siphon but a bottomless money pit, what war do you think we'd be fighting? How avidly would we back South Korea if we got nothing in return? Nothing. As in zero. If in fact it COST up hundreds of millions in the munitions we lobbed at the North? And it would.
The whole thing is utter bullsh#t, from most every angle, and those insisting it is not are the most deluded. It is so distorted that the catchphrase in all such conflicts is that "nothing is absolutely true or absolutely false in war."
JL
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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I was like twelve when we began cranking up the Vietnam War and I vividly remember my father one day looking up from the TV and telling me:
"any time someone is waving a flag in your face, reach back and make sure your wallet is still there...".
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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This is obviously Obama's fault.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Basically N Korea is very predictable. Being outrageous and slightly dangerous is what they do, their MO if you will. You can almost set your clock by it.
Here is what I said a week ago
they are limited to whatever creative annoyances they can come up with that won't quite get themselves killed by us or SK. Things like sinking ships.. small barrages on mostly unihabited lands. Nuke tests..or whatever other small thing they can come up with perhaps unanticipated.
I would expect something fairly soon based on past MO.
Looks like this time it's another missile launch (nothing new there). Expected in a few days. Probably lob it off the coast of Japan would be my guess. At worst they might try to hit some uninhabited or lightly inhabited island with a conventional or dummy warhead. Hoping no one over-reacts. Should make for some great target practice for our missile defense systems. I wonder if they will work.
I also would not be surprised if the missile explodes or fails on launch. We may have more than a few feasible strategies for sabotage.
May you live in interesting times.
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lostinshanghai
Social climber
someplace
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Screw Norris we need "Wambo"
Norris will eventually get tired of kicking and punching but Sly Baby never seems to run out of bullets.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Wouldn't it be less violent, well, to a point, if we just sent over Jennifer Lopez,
Penelope Cruz, Queen Latifa, and some friends? It would be over quickly.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Apr 10, 2013 - 05:06am PT
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I liked a phrase I read recently which said,
It's hard to tell if North Korea is a rogue state or just a parody of a rogue state".
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rick sumner
Trad climber
reno, nevada/ wasilla alaska
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Apr 11, 2013 - 12:19pm PT
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Ron I seem to see a couple shadows in the water beside Chuck, could it be Sly and Arnold?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Apr 11, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
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North Korea is awesome.
I can't wait to go back!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Apr 11, 2013 - 08:27pm PT
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DPRK Secret weapon!
Note the footwear.
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Apr 11, 2013 - 08:45pm PT
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^^^ that's a WMD right thar. But she is Canadian & I don't know if we want to get involved.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Apr 12, 2013 - 12:04am PT
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