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"continence"? |
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Written By:
Dan Holway
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Don’t worry. The Chinese will step in if things get completely out of hand. They don’t want a (greater) stream of North Korean refugees coming across their border. |
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Dave Schuler
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And you have the problem that, if you give them food, it only goes to the party bigshots and the military, which means ’humanitarian aid’ winds up supporting the dirtbags causing the problem. |
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Firehand
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The Chinese will step in if things get completely out of hand. They don’t want a (greater) stream of North Korean refugees coming across their border. North Korea has been executing border crossers (a rather dramatic change) for the last month or so and has pretty much dried that up. |
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McQ
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And you have the problem that, if you give them food, it only goes to the party bigshots and the military, which means ’humanitarian aid’ winds up supporting the dirtbags causing the problem. I don’t disagree - I just sayin’ I’m not a guy who is comfortable with letting people starve for any reason.
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McQ
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I just sayin’ I’m not a guy who is comfortable with letting people starve for any reason. Then sleep easy, because it’s Kim Jong Il that would be letting people starve, in any circumstance.
I know, I know.....cheap semantics. |
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shark
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Better to short-run have people starve and then oust Kim than prop him up and let his brutality and insanity continue longer.
Short-term suffering is better than long term suffering... |
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Scott Jacobs
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North Koreans continue to suffer from a Marxist disease in their midst.
It is called Kim Jong-Illness.
It is nothing that a little democracy won’t cure. |
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James Marsden
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It is nothing that a little democracy won’t cure. They just need a little vitamin Tank. :) |
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Scott Jacobs
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As badly as I want to see Kim’s regime collapse, I’m afraid starvation for countless millions within the country isn’t the way I’d like to see it happen. I’m just not Machiavellian enough to accept that as a viable option. It will happen that way either way. Even if we send food, it won’t trickle down to the millions. We learned that lesson in Somalia. |
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Phelps
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http://phelps.donotremove.net
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Yes, sadly the North Korean people are well and truly screwed. I would hope that at least at some point all those who over the past 50+ years supported the NoKo Stalinist government or gave it cover would at least have the decency to be embarrassed, but my experience tells me they won’t skip a beat. The answer is that Kim just didn’t get Communism right. Hang on, though, Mugabe will. (Ooops.) Well, Fidel did. (Oops.) Well, Chavez will. And on and on and on and on. |
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JorgXMcKie
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As badly as I want to see Kim’s regime collapse, I’m afraid starvation for countless millions within the country isn’t the way I’d like to see it happen. I’m just not Machiavellian enough to accept that as a viable option.
(sigh)
I’m with Phelps, here, Bruce. I gotta say, I’m not happy about it either, but given the construction of things, it wasn’t likely to go down any other way, Bruce. So long as the communists are in power, they’re always the last ones to feel the damage they cause.
It is, in fact, situations like this that give rise to the phrase: "There are worse things than war".
Hmmm. At the risk of throwing this thing off the track, perhaps that’s a question as should be asked; Would a war, in this case, have saved lives?
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Bithead
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North Korea has been executing border crossers (a rather dramatic change) for the last month or so and has pretty much dried that up
If things get bad enough, that won’t be enough of a penalty. If you are starving to death, and the nearest food is in China, you’ll try to go there. And in any case, a quick death by bullet is easier than a slow death by starvation. |
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Written By:
kishnevi
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Airlift?
Drop food simultaneously all over the back-woods with colorful English labels on the cans and bags of grain. |
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Written By:
Synova
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McQ, I absolutely detest the thought of those people starving. And the thought of those party slimeballs getting enough to eat while the peasants starve. It’s just that, short of invasion, I can’t think of a damn thing we can do that would actually make a difference.
Which really pisses me off. |
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Written By:
Firehand
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http://elmtreeforge.blogspot.com
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