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onsite at each reactor location.sad thing is since they won't let it open take one guess where most of the waste is currently stored
Do you think USA can afford a full invasion with boots on ground at this stage?!Yes,
If the government used chemical weapons on the population that is a big problem.
If the rebels were able to obtain chemical weapons and use them, that is an even bigger problem.
However, the only solution is a full invasion with boots on the ground. Any other option only opens up a vacume for insurgents or other states in the area to fill the void. If we just lob missiles in and destroy the ability of the government to deflect invation from influences from AQ, the Taliban or other islamic extremist groups, we may stoke an even worse situation in Syria then the one that currently exists.
Do you think USA can afford a full invasion with boots on ground at this stage?!
Coin we spend trillions on stuff that goes bang we can smash anyone on the planet, we merely lack the will?Do you think USA can afford a full invasion with boots on ground at this stage?!
Yes,
If the government used chemical weapons on the population that is a big problem.
If the rebels were able to obtain chemical weapons and use them, that is an even bigger problem.
However, the only solution is a full invasion with boots on the ground. Any other option only opens up a vacume for insurgents or other states in the area to fill the void. If we just lob missiles in and destroy the ability of the government to deflect invation from influences from AQ, the Taliban or other islamic extremist groups, we may stoke an even worse situation in Syria then the one that currently exists.
Do you think USA can afford a full invasion with boots on ground at this stage?!
I wonder if there has ever been a US president who could guarantee outcome of his decisions.
No, but the others all had fallback plans for when things didn't work out. Obama has only one fallback plan and that is to find someone else to blame, and he seems to use it more than any other leader we have ever had.
Do you think USA can afford a full invasion with boots on ground at this stage?!
No. Though it's worth noting that the reason he is there is because we put him there, and we have no one to blame but ourselves.
But what is at stake here is not whether or not Obama get's to feel like he demonstrated testicular fortitude (though that might be important in his mind) - it is the worth of the U.S. security guarantee. Like a reputation, that value is relatively low-cost to maintain, but very high-cost to win back.
...TOKYO — When President Bill Clinton signed a 1994 agreement promising to “respect” the territorial integrity of Ukraine if it gave up its nuclear weapons, there was little thought then of how that obscure diplomatic pact — called the Budapest Memorandum — might affect the long-running defense partnership between the United States and Japan.
But now, as American officials have distanced themselves from the Budapest Memorandum in light of Russia’s takeover of Crimea, calling promises made in Budapest “nonbinding,” the United States is being forced at the same time to make reassurances in Asia. Japanese officials, a senior American military official said, “keep asking, ‘Are you going to do the same thing to us when something happens?’ ”...
“The Crimea is a game-changer,” said Kunihiko Miyake, a former adviser to Mr. Abe who is now research director at the Canon Institute for Global Studies in Tokyo. “This is not fire on a distant shore for us. What is happening is another attempt by a rising power to change the status quo.” ...
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