Has the US ever just asked for surrender before starting? Would have saved a lot of busywork in Iraq.
-
-
-
you don't remember the theater surrounding the surrender offer to iraq?
-
Was that before or after shots were fired? I was < 10 years old at the time.
-
oh, I was a teenager. it was before, there was abig thing about saddam having however many hours to surrender before the invasion
-
and saddam basically made the same offer back to bush to surrender
-
and no one got the joke, they were just incredulous like "iraq is asking us to surrender??? lol don't they know who we are"
-
it seemed like a ballsy move to me then, but I didn't understand until later it didn't matter and that we were gonna hang him either way
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
I don't care who's in charge of north korea
-
we should stop getting involved in stupid bullshit
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
The only way to make a "regime change" solution work well is to abandon all governmental "rules" and focus on getting shit done.
-
"Civilized" gub'mints don't assassinate foreign "leaders" and don't carry out direct and secret strikes to eliminate high-threat resources.
-
They declare war, carpet bomb civilian populations, and engage in "nation building" (i.e. occupation and empire).
-
That shit doesn't lead to peace, though. It just consigns tremendous numbers of people to death, on both sides, most of them bystanders.
-
The only reason "civilized" gub'mints don't do that is because they don't want to break the "rules" and set a precedent that could backfire.
-
Assassinating NK leadership and destroying nuclear weapons facilities in the dead of night via high-risk (to a handful of specialists) . . .
-
. . . operations would have a far higher likelihood of success in bringing a swift end to a nuclear threat.
-
Frontal assault by overwhelming force drags things out, kills more (especially those who don't need killing), and destroys economies.
End of conversation
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.