Posted on 08/30/2017 5:43:46 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Using the military option sooner is less risky and less costly than giving North Korea more time to advance its nuclear capabilities, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton told Fox News on Tuesday.
Bolton was reacting after President Donald Trump warned Kim Jong Un's regime "all options are in the table" Tuesday after North Korea fired a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.
The former ambassador said Pyongyang's action was "as clear a demonstration as you're going to get without actually hitting American or Japanese or South Korean territory what this regime has in mind."
He added "I think there's no misunderstanding in Japan, South Korea or – I hope – in the United States how grave this threat is," pointing out South Korea conducted a live-fire drill near the demilitarized zone in response to North Korea's missile launch.
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I agree. You would think they would learn
No, we fought “politically correct” wars in IRAQ and Afghanistan. What we need to do is fight a REAL war. Kill people, men, women, children, mosques, you name it. The liberals would be outraged, but nobody would ever again mess with the United States.
We’re already in a war with them, one they started.
We do, one way or another, need to destroy their nuclear capability as well as Iran’s... we don’t need to invade them to do it any more than Israel needed to invade and hold Iraq to eliminate the Osirek site.
They recently threatened a US territory, shelled a South Korean site, sank a S. Korean Navy ship, murdered an American student in cold blood, lobbed a missile over the airspace of Japan in our direction, been caught smuggling arms worldwide; in the past they abducted numerous civilians from Japan and kept them as slaves, experimented on prisoners, counterfeited our currency, had their technicians working in a Syrian nuclear site that was bombed by the Israelis, and they have been swapping scientists with Iran. In the past they have axed American servicemen to death in the DMZ. They keep escalating and will continue until stopped.
We heard Saddam was acquiring materials to build a bomb. We SEE the NORKS have nukes. We see they have a delivery system to hit the US. A little difference wouldn’t you say?
China has the Norks back. Who was backing Saddam?
Let’s hear YOUR solution to the NORK problem........
Let’s hear YOUR solution to the NORK problem........
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I thought I already gave it. Cut trade with China until THEY feel compelled to deal with North Korea.
I’m no expert and don’t even feel comfortable suggesting solutions to gigantic world problems (way above my pay grade), but this seems to be the most logical course of action to me.
Obviously, I’m in full agreement with the point many people are making - SOMETHING needs to be done, and needed to be done years ago.
Bolten simply said that if you use the military option "sooner", then it's less risky. That's pretty much a statement of fact.
Cutting trade w China is a 2 way street, with significant impact to the U.S. economy also.
Yup. And it may be too late now in NK without massive casualties.
It's the only way to convince the predatory powers around the world (and yes, I'll include the U.S. among them) to leave you alone.
Different hammer.
Bolton is a smart guy, but he’s never met a war he didn’t like.
Spoken like a descendant of Neville Chamberlain....pay no attention to the madman with the nukes - he will change his ways and not use the respite to become more and more dangerous....
Also a direct threat against US forces as well. We have a large and long-term airbase on Hokkaido, Misawa AB.
Go back in history and read about how France and England were faced by Hitler when he just wanted to seize some more land for the German people to have “living room”. Had those two powers acted early enough, they could have wiped Hitler out. Instead he occupied France and came within a few inches of being able to invade England.
The price of waiting grows by the day. Soon we will need to fear an EMP attack, a bomb delivered by ballistic to Hawaii, Alaska or the US west coast, or maybe even a bomb in San Diego harbor or Long Beach harbor or San Francisco harbor placed by submarine.
The EMP bomb attack is becoming a plausible reality. A missile that has the capability to deliver a bomb to the US west coast is almost large enough to put that same bomb in orbit. Although it requires an even larger missile to put that same payload in polar orbit, our present anti-ballistic missile system can only shoot down missiles that pass within a certain range. A launch from DPRK into polar orbit would not pass through that kill window and we could not shoot it down.
Moreover, we have zero protection of civilian infrastructure against an EMP attack. We are only left with the fact that nobody knows what systems will fail and which would not.
These factors weigh greatly that we must address the problem of DPRK sooner than later, and when we do, we must throw everything against it in the first opening salvo so as to minimize their ability to hold Seoul hostage.
I agree with Bolton.
What are we going to do when this nut has 100 missiles capable of reaching the CONUS, with functional, miniaturized nukes on top of each?
What you are saying is akin to criticizing Churchill during the 1930s, when he was warning about the threat from Germany. I’m sure that his critics used words very, very similar to yours - and they were proven wrong, at a cost of millions of lives.
No one WANTS a war - but sometimes you have to fight a smaller one in the short run in order to avoid a much larger and more deadly/destructive one later on.
Of course, we could simply tell the Chinese that we’re giving the Japanese the go-ahead - and a bunch of encouragement - to build its own nukes and rockets. The Chinese know that if Japan decides to do so, they’ll have functional and deliverable nukes within a few months, and 200 rockets armed with advanced MIRVs within 2-3 years, which will be capable of devastating/destroying China as a functioning society. Maybe that’ll get the Chinese to “repeal and replace” the present nutcase. As added incentive, we could include the Taiwanese and South Koreans in that declaration...at which point the use of toilet paper will vastly increase in Beijing.
What part of “Obviously, I’m in full agreement with the point many people are making - SOMETHING needs to be done, and needed to be done years ago” was unclear?
It is a good thing thing that people with a similar view to yours, Obama and Clinton are no longer in charge of dealing with the Korean nuclear threat.
China might bluster but will do nothing meaningful if we react to this unprecedented threat to the American people. What do you expect them to do? Will they nuke the US? Will they sink an American carrier? Will the commit economic suicide by cutting trade?
Just a question, if this maniac is left alone for another ten years what do you think his nuclear capacity to devastate America will be?
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