If most of his rhetoric is ****-waving then why the need to start a war that will be so destructive? Im a conservative. I generally want to punish the evil. But im not sure how decimating North Korea and thereby seeing South Korea decimated is a suitable response to lousy human rights issues in North K.
And Im not seeing any answers from you as to what to do. You are advocating military action. To what extent? Because you have to wipe out the regime to create change. You effectively have to make North Korea into South Korea. You have to do with with China not getting pissed. And you have to do it without North Korea, realizing the jig is up, launching everything they have at South Korea and/or Japan etc.
If the end result is a big hole where North Korea used to be, a decimated South, a de-stablized region, an angry China and millions of deaths and untold millions of refugees, what was accomplished?
Provide an answer please.
Im no expert so if I had to provide an answer, I'd say make it US policy that North Korea cannot have the Bomb. Destroy their facilities from the air (if you can) and if that invites a response from them (ie. their threats to sink a US carrier) so be it...they reap what they sow and will not like the response. But you have to have China at least indifferent to it and you have to have the support of other nations. Personally, I'd prefer the US "support" another nation doing the dirty work. Let Japan bomb North Korea.