Thread: Documentary:"Inside North Korea"

Nope, can't support the call for us to get into yet another land war in Asia. Recent history seems to indicate this to be a bad idea, and right now, you might've noticed we're a tad committed elsewhere.

Furthermore, the North Koreans now have NUKES (thanks to perhaps the worst, most predictably disastrous deal ever struck with an aggressive and untrustworthy regime since the Nazis put one over on ole Neville, all thanks to that foreign policy Dream Team of Clinton/Albright). We dare not back 'em into a corner.

Senator Moynihan, one of the last respectable Democrats (God rest his soul) used to say that the imperative foreign and security policy task of the West was managing the decline of the Soviet Union. He was prescient enough to realize that it would someday collapse, even though when he uttered those words it showed no signs of the rottenness at its core; it showed only strength and aggressive intent. But he was aware that it would eventually go down, and if it was handled incorrectly, it may either go out in a blaze of nuclear fire, or it may take another hundred years of human misery under the yoke of communist slavery to settle the question.

So it is with North Korea. They've NEVER looked strong nor durable, and their imminent collapse has been predicted for about 20 years now, so that's one difference between them and the USSR. But our task remains the same: managing their decline, bringing their craft down to a relatively easy crash-landing; collapsing their rotten old prison building without involving any of the surrounding structures. Too fast, and the regime panicks and fires the worst weapons in the world into population centers in South Korea and Japan. Too slow, and the resulting misery just drags on and the humanitarian rebuilding required will simply be too much to cope with.

SO...we've got to help them beach their foundering ship. Sinking it all at once is dangerous to us, and bailing the water out of it only delays the inevitable, with worse consequences when it goes down eventually anyway.

But starting a war with 'em would be the worst thing we could do.

"IM FOR WAR AGAINST NORTH KOREA"

Until we finish Iraq, I don't think this is a real option. In addition, you would need the support of South Korea since they would likely feel the brunt of the conflict.