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Rising power Qatar stirs unease among some Mideast neighbors
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2013-02-12, 09:27 | Link #26383 | |
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2013-02-12, 09:59 | Link #26384 |
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Nothing on the Chinese internet says anything valuable about the current situation. As NYT says, this is a big test for new Chinese leaders. I don't see any effective responds to the nuclear test. The US could perform some surgical operations, the Chinese could cut off all supply to NK, but there is no guarantee at all such measures will not come back and bite them. Who is going to clean up the mess that possibly results from such measures? Well, only one thing is for sure: the security problems of northeast Asia is going to get a lot worse.
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2013-02-12, 10:16 | Link #26385 | |
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During this time while I don't think North Korea could outright win against South Korea, they could cause immense numbers of casualties, especially when we bear in mind how close Seoul is to the border. North Korea also has 3 times more planes then South Korea, and though those planes are likely much less sophisticated then their southern counterparts, they probably could still cause immense damage to Seoul, especially when you consider that North Korea will probably use Chemical, Biological and Nuclear weapons of some kind or another (while I doubt they have a properly useable Nuclear weapon, they could still spread Radioactivity through "Dirty" Bombs). At the moment, I think the human costs of a war in Korea would be quite terrible. EDIT: Perhaps the best possibility might be to assassinate North Korea's senior leadership. Power is so centralized that the country might just collapse into anarchy. |
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IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics
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2013-02-12, 12:45 | Link #26390 | |
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It's not like they'll poison them or send in an assassin's team with surgical tools. Most likely they'll use a drone and blow everything up or something similarly stupid.
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2013-02-12, 12:52 | Link #26391 |
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Someone tell LL Cool J and George Foreman to stay indoors...
LAPD still in search for Dorner, fire on another man in a case of mistake and identity. Best part is the guy they shot at is shorter, weighs less and is WHITE. |
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2013-02-12, 13:19 | Link #26395 | |
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And besides, while you might hit a few unfortunate innocent civilians, in the long run by offing the regime millions will be saved. However, the Anarchy that follows the collapse of the regime might see a lot more people die. In the end, I don't think anything should be done without the say so of South Korea and China. You would need a very swift response, with all interested parties presenting a unified front. To get China on side, I'd give them something like 30 year rights to many of the mineral resources in North Korea, and a very large demilitarized "buffer" zone that the new "unified Korea" can't post troops within, and the removal of all US military bases from the peninsula. As for South Korea, I'd get the US, China and Japan to foot a suitable portion of the bill required for North Korea's transition to a stable state. As for the North Korean people, they should get enough development aid such that they have a guaranteed food supply, guaranteed employment and a "decent" standard of living during a suitably long "transition period", during which time they'll also receive educational resources to help them integrate into the modern world, and un-indoctrinate them, perhaps with classes given by the North Koreans defectors (who they might more easily identify with). |
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2013-02-12, 14:01 | Link #26398 | |
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But you know the saying, power corrupts. This is why when people toss out the whole "nah, the military will revolt with us if the government turns evil!", I laugh. Some might, but many won't. There's more historical precedent that police and military will turn on their own people when ordered than there is those who mass desert in protest. Not saying it's impossible, but those ties, they run deep. Far too often we are the weapons of our own destruction.
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I wish the article had listed all 25 "core sports" from which wrestling will be excluded. Limiting the discussion to other potential dismissals like field hockey doesn't give us a good picture of the sports the IOC thinks are "core." Update: I just happened by the New York Times site. As you might imagine, the comments about this decision are uniformly negative.
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