[r9etb]

The US doesn't have the stomach

You know, the real Mr. Rogers wasn't a whiny little wuss. We have the stomach, or we wouldn't be in Iraq and Afghanistan right now.

We can't simply attak NK without sacrificing hundreds of thousands (at least) of South Koreans. I don't have the stomach for that, either. Your Kommando Keyboard might.

The likely price tag for SK limits our options -- but it doesn't close them out. Regime change is the way to address this problem. Li'l Kim is a marked man.

[ichabod1]

I think we'd have a darn sight better chance of forcing regime change in Iran than in NK. It's a closed police state. How do you change a regime there?

[Mr Rogers]

First - I have 2 kids that have been in Iraq, and I'll be going to Afghanistan in a few months. Think a little bit about what I posted before you start calling names.

Second - you make my point. A war in Korea is not something to take lightly. Upwards of 20 million Koreans live within artillery range of nK. A nuke or two lobbed at South Korea might kill 500,000 - a conventional war would likely kill millions. I've been to the DMZ. It has hundreds of high rise apartment buildings.

'Stopping nK' would probably require a preemptive strike with nukes, laying waste to the entire country. We're not going to do that, and neither will anyone else.

So the question remains - how do we live with a nuke nK (and Iran)?

[GodBlessUSA]

Great response. I could have sworn when President Bush remarked about the UN, his face didn't look as serious as the rest of the speech.

I think, They are again underestimating President Bush and the US. A mistake too many Countries make. Like Saddam did.

[justshutupandtakeit]

There is one positive thing about such matters as this: we get to be entertained by the brilliance of the Armchair Generals. Of course, it is always the same advice "BOMB!!!BOMB!!!and BOMB some more."