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hopefully if he has to drop the hammer he will do it with extreme prejudice
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That's cheap-ass rhetoric from a [bad] imitation Clancy novel. A billion here, a billion there might just be worth the lives of thousands of American servicemen, and as a side benefit save the lives of millions of Koreans. There is no reason in the world for this to escalate to anything serious - at least not now - and in spite of Rumsfeld's bravado, the timing could not be worse. There's Iraq ... and who was that other guy? "Al" somebody ...
I have (for all practical purposes) a son-in-law getting ready to take another U.S.M.C.-sponsored trip, and his destination isn't a mystery to anyone on the fucking planet. I know very well that this sort of thing is what he signed up to do - been there, done that, stenciled that T-shirt and updated that will. Mr. Ryan, just out of curiousity, how many people serving in BaitCorps on the line in S. Korea do you know? Or how many of the "first responders" to any incident there do you know? You going to go sign up to defend Seoul from the bad guys in the north?