Now now, fellas. We're doing some more of that consultative stuff. Conferring with our allies, and gonna take it to the Security Council, who will no doubt deliberate smoothly and surely, now that there are no cowboys sending their rude and arrogant representatives the wisest, most effective deliberative body in the history of history.
Remember, we're not being all rude and unilateral anymore. Besides, what *would* the legal pretext (and remember, we're all about obeying everybody else's laws - and considering adopting them for ourselves, as our laws are, well, y'know, too cowboyish and unsophisticated and oligarchy-unfriendly and all) for launching on the rocket? We start doing that unilaterally, and before you know it, North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, Greenpeace and France will have missile ships positioned off the Atlantic and Pacific Missile Ranges, ready to shoot down US rockets which are demonstrably polluting the upper atmosphere. Gotta think through the precedents you're setting folks.
Much good will come of this. Give The Man a chance. He promised us and the world a change, and he's delivered. How can you not like a man who keeps his promises? And if you don't give him a chance, well, remember, he's keeping score and he's the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
I confidently predict that Cannoneer #4 is just dragging his knuckles raw and that Beautiful Leader Kim will in fact launch a satellite next time. There must have been some problem with it this time, and, well, let's face it, it's just easier to light off one of those rockets than to try to defuel it. The people of North Korea may not be entitled to food, but satellite TV is an inalienable right. Kim's got his priorities straight in a modern world.
Besides, you guys really misread this. North Korea, in addition to honestly just wishing to do its global civic duty by adding to the world's satellite constellation and to gain national pride for North Koreans by having east coasters in the US *gasp in awe and wonder* as genuine North Korean space junk burns up re-entering the atmosphere, *also* uses these launches as distress signals. When they need food and/or other aid, they send up a missile like a flare from a sinking ship, and then the aid shipments arrive. Now if they could just get a satellite up, they could just phone the UN instead of sending up flares.
Iran and Syria? They just need the missiles for their honestly-aspired-to space programs. The Mullahs wish to plant the crescent moon green flag of peace on Mars and spread the joy of their brand of Islam to Infidels galaxy-wide. Who are we to step on their aspirations? Syria wants Animal Planet and the DIY network, especially the latter so they don't have to outsource as much.
Remember, it was the last such enlightened President we had in the White House, Jimmy Carter, who decided the North Koreans weren't a threat and decided that soldiers of the 2nd Division shouldn't get combat patches any more, regardless of what was happening, because the North Koreans weren't hostile. They were simply an overseas contingency. And the intervening years have proven that exactly correct.
President Obama simply continues in the tradition of the simple peanut farmer from Plains.
And no, there's no salmonella in those peanuts. Things like that don't happen in the land of gold-pooping unicorns.
Remember, we're not being all rude and unilateral anymore. Besides, what *would* the legal pretext (and remember, we're all about obeying everybody else's laws - and considering adopting them for ourselves, as our laws are, well, y'know, too cowboyish and unsophisticated and oligarchy-unfriendly and all) for launching on the rocket? We start doing that unilaterally, and before you know it, North Korea, Iran, Russia, China, Greenpeace and France will have missile ships positioned off the Atlantic and Pacific Missile Ranges, ready to shoot down US rockets which are demonstrably polluting the upper atmosphere. Gotta think through the precedents you're setting folks.
Much good will come of this. Give The Man a chance. He promised us and the world a change, and he's delivered. How can you not like a man who keeps his promises? And if you don't give him a chance, well, remember, he's keeping score and he's the only thing between you and the pitchforks.
I confidently predict that Cannoneer #4 is just dragging his knuckles raw and that Beautiful Leader Kim will in fact launch a satellite next time. There must have been some problem with it this time, and, well, let's face it, it's just easier to light off one of those rockets than to try to defuel it. The people of North Korea may not be entitled to food, but satellite TV is an inalienable right. Kim's got his priorities straight in a modern world.
Besides, you guys really misread this. North Korea, in addition to honestly just wishing to do its global civic duty by adding to the world's satellite constellation and to gain national pride for North Koreans by having east coasters in the US *gasp in awe and wonder* as genuine North Korean space junk burns up re-entering the atmosphere, *also* uses these launches as distress signals. When they need food and/or other aid, they send up a missile like a flare from a sinking ship, and then the aid shipments arrive. Now if they could just get a satellite up, they could just phone the UN instead of sending up flares.
Iran and Syria? They just need the missiles for their honestly-aspired-to space programs. The Mullahs wish to plant the crescent moon green flag of peace on Mars and spread the joy of their brand of Islam to Infidels galaxy-wide. Who are we to step on their aspirations? Syria wants Animal Planet and the DIY network, especially the latter so they don't have to outsource as much.
Remember, it was the last such enlightened President we had in the White House, Jimmy Carter, who decided the North Koreans weren't a threat and decided that soldiers of the 2nd Division shouldn't get combat patches any more, regardless of what was happening, because the North Koreans weren't hostile. They were simply an overseas contingency. And the intervening years have proven that exactly correct.
President Obama simply continues in the tradition of the simple peanut farmer from Plains.
And no, there's no salmonella in those peanuts. Things like that don't happen in the land of gold-pooping unicorns.
The simple peanut farmer was an epic fail at *that*, too. He was in the process of failing at being a peanut *broker* when he felt the overwhelming urge to tell us all how much mo' moraler the gummint would be with him in charge...
One of our guys just passed through Cairo on the way back from his leave. An *Egyptian* asked him when Obama planned to start bailing out the world's economies "like he promised at G20"...
Perhaps. Just like Germany survived Hitler and WW2, and it's still there.
But my God ..... at what cost?