[carton253]

Are you saying, in this current climate, that the American people would favor an attack on North Korea over Iraq?

[rightwing2]

Are you saying, in this current climate, that the American people would favor an attack on North Korea over Iraq?

No, I am not because as you well know the Adminstration has spent nearly two years conditioning the American people to believe that Iraq is the greatest threat to America since the Soviet Union. At the same time the Bush Adminstration by its actions has led the American people to believe that the dictator of North Korea is somehow mellowing just because he has aceeded to the Clinton Agreed Framework in which the US pledged to sponsor the construction of two large nuclear-weapons producing factories which the DPRK can then use to build a lot more nukes than it already has with which to make good on its 1999 threat to turn America into "a sea of fire."

No, obviously it would take some major explaining by the Bush Administration to tell the American people why its decision to continue Clinton's appeasement of North Korea was a big mistake and why denuking North Korea by force would be a far wiser course, which is why I think it is highly unlikely that they will opt to abandon their Chamberlainian appeasement of Pyongyang anytime soon.

[weikel]

An attack on North Korea would mean an all out war with China... one of the few countries that could stand against us if we want to take down North Korea we will likely have to work out a deal with China which in all likelihood will mean (quid pro quo) greenlighting an invasion of Taiwan by the mainland. Such a deal would be very unpopular on the right.