Dave’s Rants

This New York Times Editorial is truely terrifying. It’s about the US and their plans for North Korea. The US has begun serious planning for a strike on North Korea but they say they’ll use diplomacy first.

But several factions in the administration are serious about a military strike if diplomacy fails, and since the White House is unwilling to try diplomacy in any meaningful way, it probably will fail.

That quote sort of sums up the whole Iraq crisis too doesn’t it. The ramifications of an attack on NK are unbelievable. It would most likely involve the usage of Nuclear weapons and certainly insure massive loss of life, and with Bush and his cronies in charge you have to believe military action will be America’s prefered option.

So if the military option is too scary to contemplate, and if allowing North Korea to proliferate is absolutely unacceptable, what’s left? Precisely the option that every country in the region is pressing on us: negotiating with North Korea.

Ironically, the gravity of the situation isn’t yet fully understood in either South Korea or Japan, partly because they do not think this administration would be crazy enough to consider a military strike against North Korea. They’re wrong.