Posted on 07/30/2017 11:33:35 AM PDT by Strac6
If history has taught us anything, it has taught us that failure to deal with dictators early in their existence only ensures that we must deal with them later, at a much higher price.
For example, Hitler’s orders to his troops during what amounted to Germany’s invasion of Austria was that they were to retreat and return to Germany at the slightest effective resistance. However, Austria (and the rest of Europe) tried to appease Hitler, and the 10 years was a glaring example of the history referenced above.
This is the situation we are currently facing regarding North Korea and Kim Jong-Un. Actually, it’s the situation we have faced since the Clinton administration first appeased North Korea and Kim’s father decades ago. The reality is that Kim is far from the madman some would like to portray him as. He is ruthless, smart, and as a result of those two “attributes”, he is getting what he wants on the world stage. His latest test launches prove he has developed intercontinental range ballistic missiles. The question of whether or not he can currently fit a nuclear warhead to the top of those missiles is moot. If he cannot now do so, he will be able to do so, and most certainly will do so in the very near future.
Once he has nuclear -tipped ICBMs Kim can dictate what he wants, not just on the Korean Peninsula and the surrounding waters, but throughout the entire world. So the reality becomes that we must either stop them now, or stop him at a much greater cost later when the threat of his retaliation becomes reality, or perhaps, following the current trends of the Western world, be prepared to dance to his tune for the next millennia.
We cannot depend on China to stop North Korea. North Korea provides a great service to China, and I’m not talking about the coal the PRC imports from the DPRK. North Korea is a huge practical, strategic and diplomatic thorn in our side in eastern Asia. By forcing the United States to devote a large percentage of our defense expenditures and interests onto the Korean Peninsula, we take a great deal of pressure off Beijing.
Likewise the Japanese do not have the ability, the constitutional authority, nor the will to defeat the North Koreans. The news leader of South Korea has absolutely no intestinal fortitude to take on his northern neighbor, and has publicly said so. The bottom line is that the Japanese would be more than willing to help to the degree they can while the South Koreans “held our coats” if we decided to take definitive action against North Korea.
Another reality is that despite all the noise the Chinese and Russians would make if we decided to take out North Korea as an effective nuclear power, they really wouldn’t mind it that much, Moscow and Beijing both realize North Korean missiles can fly west just as easily as they can fly east.
The problem is, we need one, overriding, war-justifying act on the part of Kim to trigger a response. The “smart part” of Kim has been careful to push us to the brink, but not over it, and in the process, neither justifying nor triggering a military response to his launches.
Without that tipping-point justification we are severely limited by the political realities of the 21st century world. Kim’s latest ICBM launch may however point us in the direction of the solution to justify what history tells us is necessary.
The latest two launches have not followed traditional missile parabolas. Rather than launching for maximum range, these missiles have impacted only a short horizontal distance away from the launching point after having traveled to exceptionally high altitudes before heading back into the atmosphere. The now-demonstrated ability to achieve these total distances traveled by the missiles, including a 40 minute time-of-flight of the latest launch, prove that by simply reprogramming the missiles trajectory into a more horizontal plane they could have easily struck most of North America, including a majority of the East Coast of the United States.
So, in order to give us the justification we need, why don’t we help Kim do that?
Granted, I am slipping back into the days of dirty tricks diplomacy, but that worked exceptionally well for decades, why not give it another chance with this opportunity presents itself so well, as it does here, and the price of not taking effective action is so high.
The concept, which a few million dollars, yen, yuan in bribes could undoubtably create, would be to hack into the guidance computers of the next North Korean missile launch and lower the trajectory so the unarmed nosecone does in fact impact somewhere North America. Now I realize the danger that the relatively rudimentary guidance of a North Korean ICBM might create an impact in some good union worker’s house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh and kill the family pet turtle, but since Kim is launching without nuclear warheads, that would be a small price to pay for the justification of an attack that would completely eliminate his nuclear, missile, and other large-scale affective capabilities.
Think about it. As bizarre as it is, this errant missile impact would give POTUS the justification to do basically anything he wanted to do in return and retaliation. Even the screaming pinkos would be relatively silent when the president’s actions were so “clearly justified.”
Yes, I know it’s bizarre. But by 1939, Hitler’s aggressive war intentions were clearly understood throughout the world. Likewise Tojo had decreed the “Greater Southeast Asia Co-prosperity Severe.” Both had stated their intention to conquer the West in much less virulent terms then Kim uses now. If you were given the opportunity to go back in time and stop Hitler or Tojo before 30 million people died to fulfill their psychotic dreams, would you not do so?
Given the opportunity to stop Kim now, should we not do so? In fact, must not we do so...now?
Anyone else have any better ideas as to how to get away with it?
it’s certainty only something a gov’t employee could think up.
utterly insane
Not a government employee... and do you think we can allow Kim to develop nuc-tipped ICBM’s, and how do you justify the massive attack it would/will take to eliminate the threat?
The time spent reading this is time wasted out of my life, that I’ll never get back.
You want to hit Pittsburgh with a crashing rocket?
No. Not even Steelers fans deserve that.
P.S. Do you want to wait until Kim tells us has has nuc-tipped ICBMs, or demos one with a mid-Pacific detonation.
What is your solution? Hold hands and sink Kum-Ba-Ya?
A 25% duty tax on all imported china goods would get them to solve the NK problem
Look at the night time map today. Are they swimming in street lamps and glows from parking lots? Nope.
But, they do have a nuclear arsenal pointed at the country that gave them all those clams.
Thanks Hillary.
Nah, have it hit somewhere in the South Side of Chicago.
Actually, 400 pounds at terminal velocity would do little damage outside 10 meters.
And your solution is?
Totally true, but not domestically tenable here.
Step 1: Hack an unarmed North Korean missile so that it falls in the U.S.
Step 2: Use this missile as a pretext to attack North Korea.
Step 3: A Deep State insider blows the whistle on the entire scheme. And he has proof.
Step 4: Trump is impeached, convicted, and removed from office.
Totally true, but not domestically tenable here.
10,000,000 Wal-Mart customers would march on Washington!
:)
I never claimed to have one.
So, you’re thinking that we could bribe some North Korean to change the targeting on a missile so that it didn’t land in the Pacific, but say in Walla Walla, WA? No nuke on it, but we could then take out North Korea.
Hmmmmmm......
Well.
Let’s see.
I just have too many negative waves about that.
So use the Schwarzkopf method. He gave verbal orders to one man to ensure that when DS kicked off, we could, if we had to, make it look like the Woggies started it.
Yes.
I appreciate your reply, but history demonstrates and demands there will be some sort of end game to this, one that does... or does not benefit us.
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