From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 16:10:04 MST
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> Ron h quotes: "At the bottom of the article is a section titled
> Handicapping
> the Gap. Take a look at item number 15. Are on the same page of the
>
> songbook? Ron h."
> ## and continues. "He didn't leave it out of his thinking. But I
> think someone left it out of the actual published map. Take a hard
> look and tell me there's a blob for DPRK. I don't see it. A
> Different Mike"
>
> Dear "A Different Mike,"
> Just to be sure we are on the same page I read this article of
> his and none other.
> http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/ThePentagonsNewMap.htm
> If you look at the proper map he does have Korea circled and a
> reference number for looking up his comments in the text.
We weren't looking at the McNally map
(http://www.nwc.navy.mil/newrulesets/images/EastHem_resized.jpg
Which does show NK circled as a 'future hot spot' but not enclosed
within a dotted black line which would denote it as within the
'connectedness gap'.
Other quibbles I have: the NK part of the map displays only a few dots,
which would imply that its a slightly risky but not truly a freakily
dangerous place that almost triggered a major conflict in 1994 and has
37,000 US troops permanently posted on its border. If you look at other
locations, it doesn't seem much more dangerous than the Phillipines,
Angola, or Indonesia, none of whom are ruled by despotic totalitarian
regimes that have kidnapped people from neighboring nations, have a
problem with their own citizens defecting and escaping in military
vessels, and which supports an active insurgency and dissident movement
in one of its neighbor nations.
The map would imply that the former Yugoslavia is the most dangerous
place to be within the gap.
None of the sigils assigned denote any features that would explain why
those countries are within the gap (and why others are not).
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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