News North Korea Renounces Truce-U.S. Military on High Alert

You are soooo clever. No one has ever thought of that one before . . . :rolleye33:

Nobody on this thread has said this. Did you read any of the posts? :dis:

You have the insight of a cantelope and the foresight of a monkey in a zoo. We can engineer their destruction with a minimum of casualties and expense or we can start World War III.

My point, which you missed entirely, is that long-term prospects for peace and also the best interests of the USA lies in how we deal with China, not with North Korea. It's all about China.

Who has advocating reasoning with them? I advocate pressuring them intensely until they collapse internally and kill each other. They are on the verge of social, economic, and political collapse, Henry Kissinger said it yesterday.

Only a damn fool thinks that all problems can be solved by starting a World War. Nuking them means WE will the the international pariah, instead of North Korea. China and Russia would immediately ally against us and we just don't have the power to win against all comers. Even if we did, the destruction we would bring on ourselves is just not worth squashing the small annoyances of a blowhard tinpot dictator on the verge of revolt.

There are smarter way to handle this (I know you can't understand this). Irrational fear of a third-world country that possesses more rhetoric than actual threats is laughable. And cowardly. We have North Koreas hemmed in, their economy is a shambles, there is dissent internally, there is a successsion crisis about to happen, . . . and their only supporters are rapidly losing their taste for the situation.

The knee-jerk fantasy response that you advocate is childish and absurd. Have you not just seen what happens when when a country rashly goes off on a lemming-like military adventure that will cause more problems that it solves? :insane:

There are smart ways to use the military and the best way is to listen to them. They know the way to handle North Korea if it comes to it, but they are far too wise to advocate starting an war that may not be necessary when they have actually bothered to study the consequences of such action. We are overstretched militarily right now. The time ain't right to take on China and Russia, especially when we are so close to getting them join in the pressure on North Korea.

"For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." -- Sun Tsu, The Art of War