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elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:11 AM Mar 2013

we should carpetbomb n korea with snacks and warm clothing

hearts and minds are easier turned if the population is starving, right?

If 'MERICA!!!! really cared about people we'd be spending a bundle improving their lives (and our own), versus abusing our resources to enrich a handful of spoiled jerk family dynasties...




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atreides1

(16,079 posts)
1. Not a bad idea.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:18 AM
Mar 2013

And even the North Korean military isn't large enough to confiscate all of it.

Unfortunately, there are many who would just like to carpet bomb them with things that go boom, leave large craters and destroyed buildings...and broken bodies.

loudsue

(14,087 posts)
2. And then justify spending about $200 Billion "rebuilding" NK, and "training" them
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:30 AM
Mar 2013

in the new tactics to fight off their own people. Or, we could do like the bush/cheney/rumsfeld cartel and just drop money from the sky....since money is all that matters to the bombers on our side.

mopinko

(70,099 posts)
3. sounds like one of my rants.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:32 AM
Mar 2013

so many conflicts are really just about food and water and the simple things in life.

flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
4. That was Jimmy Buffet's idea for the Soviet Union.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:33 AM
Mar 2013

First drop plane loads of $20 bills then plane loads of Victoria's Secret catalogs. The communist's minds are taken off aggression, we have world peace and the Russians have split crotch panties into the 21st century.

Lydia Leftcoast

(48,217 posts)
5. Apparently North Korea is in such bad shape that even the army is underfed
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 10:35 AM
Mar 2013

so I've long maintained that if North Korea mounts a land invasion, the South Koreans should set up mess tents and offer free meals to anyone who deserts.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
6. I like the way you think.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 12:59 PM
Mar 2013

I felt that we should have dealt with Afghanistan the same way.
Instead of bombs, we should have dropped:

Big Macs & Fries

$100 Dollar Bills

Sat TVs

Levi jeans


...and let International Law Enforcement and Seal Team 6 deal with the handful of Saudi criminals hiding in the desert.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
8. Total fearmongering works in NK.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 01:05 PM
Mar 2013

NK citizens are so frighten of the dictatorship government, and I mean frighten.

Johonny

(20,849 posts)
10. The problem is they would kill the citizens found to have taken them
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:25 PM
Mar 2013

total bastards are in charge of that country.

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randome

(34,845 posts)
13. Why are we withholding anything from them anyways? I forget.
Fri Mar 29, 2013, 02:38 PM
Mar 2013

It's not like they constitute a real threat. Who cares if they make noise? Give them MORE instead of LESS until they stop yammering and join the 21st century.

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