Comments on: Korean War 2, Day 4: Everyone, Take a Deep Breath http://freekorea.us/2009/05/30/korean-war-2-day-4-everyone-take-a-deep-breath/ Wed, 23 May 2012 10:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jonathan Gardner http://freekorea.us/2009/05/30/korean-war-2-day-4-everyone-take-a-deep-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-66812 Jonathan Gardner Sat, 30 May 2009 21:13:54 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2009/05/30/korean-war-2-day-4-everyone-take-a-deep-breath/#comment-66812 The world has extended the arm of peace every day since the armistice, and even before then, to the North Korean regime. Pursuing nuclear weapons, and this successful test, is a slap in the face. North Korea doesn't want peace. They want war. They want to threaten and intimidate everyone outside of their borders the same way they threaten and intimidate everyone inside their borders. The idea of peacefully co-existing with their neighbors or themselves is a foreign concept, at least to their leaders. If we tried to support a revolution in the country, Kim Jong-Il will invade South Korea or smash Seoul to tiny bits or hand nuclear weapons over to the terrorists. If we tried to starve them, they would do the same and the people would suffer. If we tried to do anything that would subvert the regime (and the regime has GOT TO GO), they will try the same. If we invaded them with all of our forces, at least we can silence their guns and leave Seoul semi-inhabitable. At least we can blow up their nuclear facilities and their military bases. At least we can patrol their borders and their internal movements and stop anything we feel is a threat with some carefully dropped bombs. We can do it all on our schedule, meaning, we could have the North Korean regime toppled by the end of next week. Part of the reason we didn't commit so many troops to Iraq is because we needed them sitting across the border ready to invade North Korea at the drop of a hat. We're ready, we can do this, all the president has to say is "Go". Heck, congress doesn't even have to get involved because we're still at war with them. The world has extended the arm of peace every day since the armistice, and even before then, to the North Korean regime. Pursuing nuclear weapons, and this successful test, is a slap in the face. North Korea doesn’t want peace. They want war. They want to threaten and intimidate everyone outside of their borders the same way they threaten and intimidate everyone inside their borders. The idea of peacefully co-existing with their neighbors or themselves is a foreign concept, at least to their leaders.

If we tried to support a revolution in the country, Kim Jong-Il will invade South Korea or smash Seoul to tiny bits or hand nuclear weapons over to the terrorists. If we tried to starve them, they would do the same and the people would suffer. If we tried to do anything that would subvert the regime (and the regime has GOT TO GO), they will try the same.

If we invaded them with all of our forces, at least we can silence their guns and leave Seoul semi-inhabitable. At least we can blow up their nuclear facilities and their military bases. At least we can patrol their borders and their internal movements and stop anything we feel is a threat with some carefully dropped bombs. We can do it all on our schedule, meaning, we could have the North Korean regime toppled by the end of next week.

Part of the reason we didn’t commit so many troops to Iraq is because we needed them sitting across the border ready to invade North Korea at the drop of a hat. We’re ready, we can do this, all the president has to say is “Go”. Heck, congress doesn’t even have to get involved because we’re still at war with them.

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