{"id":35096,"date":"2013-04-14T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35096"},"modified":"2013-04-14T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:06:12","slug":"jeremi-suri-ny-times-bomb-north-korea-before-its-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35096","title":{"rendered":"Jeremi Suri, NY Times; Bomb North Korea before it’s too late"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s the title of a New York Times<\/a> op\/ed piece today, in which Jeremi Suri, University of Texas history professor, advocates for attacking North Korea;<\/p>\n

President Obama should state clearly and forthrightly that this is an act of self-defense in response to explicit threats from North Korea and clear evidence of a prepared weapon. He should give the leaders of South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan advance notice before acting. And he should explain that this is a limited defensive strike on a military target \u2014 an operation that poses no threat to civilians \u2014 and that America does not intend to bring about regime change. The purpose is to neutralize a clear and present danger. That is all. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, it sounds like a hippie\/peacenik version of the Bush Doctrine, you know that doctrine that was trashed repeatedly though the Iraq War days by hippies and peaceniks. Personally, I have no problem with pre-emptive war with a country that is a threat to the United States and our citizens, but North Korea is no such threat. They’ve gotten very good at saber-rattling in service to begging for hand-outs from the US, especially during Democrat Administrations. <\/p>\n

If anyone needs a cruise missile up their tailpipe, it’s Iran and plenty of evidence exists that would justify that. But I don’t see the New York Times or Professor Suri advocating for that particular course of action. I would guess because that war wouldn’t be so easy to predict the eventual outcome, while one with North Korea would be relatively easy to predict – after some public outrage from ND;tBF, he’s acquiesce to some free fuel oil and bags of money, all personally delivered by Jimmy Carter, Dennis Rodman, or Jesse Jackson, Sr. <\/p>\n

It’s blather like this that only reinforces me belief that the situation with North Korea is just media-driven over blown blather to distract us from what is going on in Congress. There’s nothing the media would like more than to set up Obama as a real war time President, since he’s confounded their attempts to portray him as such in the war against terror.<\/p>\n

But, an well-timed, well-coordinated attack on Iran would actually prevent a rogue from joining the nuclear club. Iran is sponsoring and supporting terrorism worldwide as well as actively fighting against American troops and is a destabilizing influence in the Middle East where an actual attack would provide long term results, so which makes more sense – North Korea or Iran – as a target? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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