Wandering Idiot
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Surely something dumber has come up since my apparent forgetfulness for STDs and doctor visits.
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Reply 3 of 43 (Originally posted on: 11-03-04 11:38:41 PM)
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North Korea is going to continue to give us mounds of trouble, not to mention the fact that we are depleting the number of US soldiers stationed in South Korea by about 12,000 or so by 2008, and turning over military bases (except for Camp Red Cloud, Camp Humphreys/Osan, Camp Hialeah, and Camp Walker) to South Korean forces. If we took a pre-emptive attack against NK, China would turn up against us just for the fact that NK is communist, not to mention it's neighbor.
The Phillipines is going to continue to fight amongst itself, and we're eventually going to try to police the situation again. We have some forces there now, but the operations are rather similar to the Contra missions of the '80s, training natives to become operatives for their/our cause.
Saudi Arabia is going to be a hot spot in the next 50 years as well. Currently they are having so many issues with terrorist cells in their country alone that their government will most likely be overthrown within 30 or so years. Once Saudi Arabia falls, we'll be back to the middle east for yet another oil war.
Palestine is going to continue to pester the ever-living fuck out of Isreal, and we're going to continue sitting on our thumbs about it until shit starts getting extremely serious there. Once someone brandishes a nuclear weapon, we'll be running to back Isreal faster than an obscenely drunk man looks for a place to piss.
India and Pakistan continue to battle it out, and within the past few years have actually threatened each other with nuclear weapons. They're locked in a cold war status at the moment, but it won't take long for major fighting to break out the moment North Korea would be attacked. I say this mostly because of the fact that it will take a large amount of man-power to tackle NK/China, so we'll be strapped for forces when India and Pakistan duel it out.
Afghanistan will just continue to rebuilding until someone feels like invading it again after we pull out. Hell, we only have 14,000 soldiers there right now anyhow, we've practically pulled out as it is.
Bosnia will most likely be fought over again, but by whom I don't know or care. As long as we can pick up our strategy in Bosnia where we left off, we'll only need the Air Force for that shithole of a country.
The French will continue it's anti-war motive, and if they are involuntarily involved, we'll see a lot of rifles for sale on the black market tagged "never fired, dropped once".
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-George Santayana
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