Posted on 04/25/2017 12:00:29 PM PDT by luke1825
“From our perspective, having killed Jung Un with 59 or so cruise missles his generals probably would not be terribly interested in going to war.”
That’s a heckuva assumption. BTW, did they ever catch Chemical Ali?
I seem to recall he was executed early on. Even before they had Sadaam.
Jung un has been murdering his relatives and select generals to maintain his grip on power. It would not surprise me if most of his generals would not be eager to provide us with his itinerary.
Yeah. Looked it up. I thought he was at liberty for a long time, but he was arrested in ‘03.
Kim has redoubts buried so deep that no conventional weapon could ever reach them. I expect he’s getting all the sleep he wants.
A nuke missile might be fired before the Coup takes hold. The stakes are considerably higher for Japan, SK & China. They all may become less cooperative if this drags out.
I think the point you raise is, indeed, the whole point. As of this moment, Kim has no reliable nuke or missile. How much longer will we allow this fat prick to blackmail us with weapons he doesn’t even have? 2 parts to the answer. My vote is we end it here before he REALLY gets out of hand.
Let’s not forget Ukraine!
Use them or lose them.
Power crazed dictators never give up power-NEVER. It has to be taken , they have to be crushed. They give sane people no other choice. NK want’s SK. They’re not going to get it. What they will get is destroyed.
Boil it down and I think I have to agree. But wars have a way of not working out to our liking. We would probably succeed in taking out Kim, at great cost. But China will likely reap the rewards as Iran did after Saddam’s removal.
This is actually the general case: those in power tend to not give up power.
Do not forget Bill Clinton’s role in the Balkans.
When he wanted a “wag the dog” event, the NATO charter meant nothing. It was completely a violation of the NATO charter to go to war in the Balkans.
The Serbs did not have Nukes, so they were forced to the Will of Bill Clinton and NATO.
“Sometimes you lose your country and your life even if you don’t have weapons of mass destruction, like Saddam Hussein in Iraq.”
He lost me when he proved to me he didn’t know what he was saying as soon as he said this.
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Gadhafi had uranium not nukes ...
Except that he did, of course.
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