The longer the wait as we redraw our red lines,we look more like a Paper Tiger to China and Russia. This is one of the hardest decisions that the POTUS/CIC has to make. In my estimation the only answer is War. All other options are a waste and weaken our status in the Pacific. Incidentally,Iran also watches. Nobody in their right mind wants War but what we face as enemies in the world are insane,diabolical and always plotting. We are being boxed in by enemies that are nuclear capable. I have a feeling the USA has very little will to first strike with a nuclear response.
The longer the wait as we redraw our red lines,we look more like a Paper Tiger to China and Russia. This is one of the hardest decisions that the POTUS/CIC has to make. In my estimation the only answer is War. All other options are a waste and weaken our status in the Pacific. Incidentally,Iran also watches. Nobody in their right mind wants War but what we face as enemies in the world are insane,diabolical and always plotting. We are being boxed in by enemies that are nuclear capable. I have a feeling the USA has very little will to first strike with a nuclear response.
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I agree entirely with your post, but it is frustrating to see so many who think a second Korean War will be short, easy and small loss of life. Did they learn NOTHING from history?
Throughout history every first-strike offensive has been accompanied by great optimism for a quick and easy victory. Just knock out the enemy’s major military power and they will roll over and play dead. In relatively modern times this has been witnessed by such actions as the Schlieffen Plan, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, Iraq, and a host of others. Even the most one-sided war I can think of, the Mexican War of 1846, lasted over two years because the Mexicans just wouldn’t quit. Enemies have this awful habit of not fully cooperating.
In 1950 there was euphoric optimism for a quick end, especially when the NK’s were pushed to the Yalu, but it didn’t really work out that way. In another war with NK, “We WON’T be home by Christmas”!