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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:52:14 -0500
From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
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John English wrote:
> Hyman Rosen wrote:
>>Mostly, it's that South Korea is unenthusiastic about
>>starting a war in their backyard.
> 
> In the same way that most countries in the Middle East and Europe
> are unenthusiastic about starting a war in Iraq?

NK and SK share a border, and SK are our allies.
Iraq is not in the same geographical situation.
And as I said, and you ignored, NK has not recently
indulged in large-scale cross-border adventurism.

> Perhaps he's not planning to invade N.Korea because it's not a
> soft enough target

Maybe he's afraid of accidentally hitting all the food
shipments we're sending them.

> or because it doesn't have any oil reserves worth taking?

Apparently, you failed to notice that when we kicked Iraq
out of Kuwait, we did not stay behind to take their oil
reserves.

Of course, being blind to reality is the traditional problem
of the radical left.