Posted on 03/17/2017 5:59:09 AM PDT by Mariner
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the U.S. will not rule out the possibility of using military force against North Korea if it continues to develop nuclear weapons, telling reporters Friday that "all of the options are on the table."
After visiting the militarized border between South Korea and North Korea, Tillerson spoke at a press conference with South Korean foreign minister Yun Byung-se in Seoul, where he was asked if he would rule out military action against North Korea.
Tillerson said the U.S. does not want to engage in a military conflict, "but obviously if North Korea takes actions that threatens South Korean forces or our own forces, that would be met with (an) appropriate response. If they elevate the threat of their weapons program to a level that we believe requires action that option is on the table."
Referring to how the Obama administration hoped sanctions would cripple North Korea to the point where it would renew de-nuclearization negotiations, Tillerson added, "Let me be very clear: the policy of strategic patience has ended."
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What we have been doing has not worked, but only empowered and emboldened the NORKS.
Let's see if nuclear confrontation, maybe including China, works better.
Only a complete moron would tell a potential enemy “oh, we’ll never use force, no matter what”. But then, we are talking about about obammy.
What if a judge says no? Apparently elections don’t matter.
Hey NORKS: When the SECDEF is affectionately known as "Mad Dog" and the regime that he replaced had Hussein and Ash calling the shots, you may have missed your window of opportunity.
Absolutely. Often the best use of a strong military is not actually using it, but simply offering the credible threat of using it. Lefties love diplomacy but forget that diplomacy only really works if you have a credible threat of force to back it up. You often don’t actually have to go to war to get what you want, but you can’t expect hostile countries to cooperate if you take military action completely off the table.
Not to mention that in the long term sanctions might not be a completely peaceful response anyway. Sanctions are what got us into WWII; the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because US economic sanctions cut off vital imports needed by Japan to continue their war with China. The Japanese were forced to expand into SE Asia to obtain war materials and believed the US Pacific naval presence was a threat to that expansion. Hence the attack to remove that threat.
In similar fashion, if sanctions become too effective against the Norks, might they not react aggressively to protect their own national interest?
Rex is madder than Mattox.
Exactly! North Korea needs to find a liberal judge to overrule this policy. While they’re at it the judge can also make the administration remove those defensive weapons that we just shipped to S. Korea.
As soon as someone reads Rex’s comments to the idiot libtards, I’m sure they will explode!
Nothing a few surgical drone strikes won’t take care of.
“Often the best use of a strong military is not actually using it, but simply offering the credible threat of using it.”
Or, as the Romans put it, si vis pacem, para bellum. (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
“Sanctions are what got us into WWII; the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because US economic sanctions cut off vital imports needed by Japan to continue their war with China.”
May I recommend “Japan’s Imperial Conspiracy,” by David Bergamini? I know the word “conspiracy” has been turned into a pejorative by the left, but we must not forget that people do conspire.
The Japanese were out to impose their hegemony on fully half of the globe, not just China.
Oh, and something the norks have to consider that the Japanese didn’t is that we can destroy their capitol in minutes if we decide to, and, unlike the Japanese, if their capitol is destroyed, they’re done.
The only way for North Korea to be fixed is for the US, China, Japan, S. Korea, etc....someone...to take out the top layer of N. Korean leadership.
Sometimes it’s necessary to shoot a rabid animal.
So, now we are going to North Korea? This guy is crazy. He might not be able to reach the west coast, but he can still hit the south and hit Japan.
Good. Hopefully everyone realize that Pres. Bush’s Axis of Evil (Norks, Iran, and Iraq (Saddam)) was indeed an accurate assessment.
Iraq was taken care of (albeit with a mass hypocrisy still to this day). North Korea and Iran are next?
Ronald Reagan: Peace Through Strength
It works with the right leadership.
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