What would be your reasonable response, Dag?
freeman3 wrote:Or cave in to them and have our west coast be subject to attack from a crazy regime.
I don't really disagree, except to say this: letting North Korea develop a missile and the tech to nuke the US, or deliver an EMP, is not acceptable.
Let me put it another way: if the POTUS has to choose between risking war with North Korea and millions of Koreans dying OR letting North Korea kill millions of Americans, he is President of the United States, not South Korea.
That said, I would do everything I could to take Fat Boy out, or to render their weapons useless. If that means defensive shields, particle beams, or whatever, then I'm fine with it.
And again any response could conceivably cause North Korea to bomb Seoul.
It was pretty clear from Ricky's response that he would not do anything as it was the kid's fault for what happened to him
It is also ironic that Ricky quoted Churchill when Churchill opposed appeasement
Winston Churchill believed talking and discussing a problem to attempt to come to a peaceful solution was better than going to war.
I am just glad that Ricky is not our negotiator...or I would have to start looking for bomb shelters!
China is NK's closest thing to an ally.
Why they are going to move against an ally that causes headaches for the US and its allies?
NK developing an ICBM that can reach the United States cannot be allowed
freeman3 wrote:An ICBM that only reaches a few inhabitants? You mean like Los Angeles? What other place could you be referring too? Maybe you're talking about Honolulu? Only 375,000 inhabitants?
Listen you can talk all you want that we can't force China to do anything. That's fine. Trump talked about working with China...and their trade with NK escalated. What China should be looking at is that if NK gets close we're going to take those facilities out. Not thinking Ricky runs foreign policy and we'll back down no matter what. NK should be thinking that we will take out those facilities as well.
There was nothing wrong with Obama's red line. He just should have followed through. I think we should make it clear, very clear, exceedingly clear...that we're going to take their missile facilities out if we seem them getting close to an ICBM. And if we get nervous that NK is going to start a nuclear over it with South Korea...then I am guessing we would go after the regime too. All parties can adjust their behavior accordingly.
I do find it curious that the more NK behaves badly...the more China trades with them. We need to throw down the gauntlet that we're not allowing NK to develop an ICBM. And we're willing to discuss any resolution to avoid having the necessity to take out NK's facilities but, once it gets to that point, we're taking them out. No one should have any misunderstanding about that.