In
most wars custom indicates that it’s unwise to allow one’s enemy
a vast period of time to build up a nuclear arsenal and weapons
delivery systems such as ICBMs. The United States and the U.N. have
done that since there never was an agreement to end the Korean War,
only an armistice to halt combat along a demilitarized zone for a
time.
One
wonders what sort of logic makes people in the Democrat Party feel
safer with a belligerent, nuclear armed nation that mocks the United
States apparently confident the U.S.A. is a paper tiger.
The
possible Korean War round 2 seems like one of those moral and
necessary engagements that would be fought by people that aren’t
yet too spoilt. Winning is everything of course, as Vince Lombardi
said. And winning as efficiently as possible is better.
That
practical worldly guide to rulers, Niccollo Machiavelli wrote :
(When) "There
is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of
others."
Allowing
North Korea additional time to build up more nuclear weapons, in
effect, creating another Soviet-era style brinksmanshp, abnegates
responsibility and is an ostrich-like political relativism. Though Democrats may yearn for Soviet style communism and hate Russia for abandoning that plan, they are wrong in wanting to dance for the dictator and let him build up a cornice of nukes that one day may wipe out L.A. and The L.A. Times.
