Originally posted by genozaur
Hawk,
Will you please first attack Russia, Britain, France,
China, Israel, (South Africa ?), Pakistan, and India. Or, maybe, you are afraid to do that ?
If you are wondering why we do not allow other countries to posess nukes without attacking them also, the answer is, I dont know. Now that Bush made his 'axis of evil' speech, and now that we are in Iraq and soon to be in Iran, N korea can only assume that we are going there next. Thus, they are obviously pouring everything they have into defending thier country against the US the best way they can, WMD's. They are not going to comply with any resolution telling them that they cannot defend themselves, just as the US wouldnt, or any other country. So, since we have traveled this far down the pre-war path, our choices do not seem to be 'live and let live' with NK, hence the question at the top of this thread. What are our choices from this point on? It seems ugly, any direction, except a diplomatic solution, which would then prove NK right in its efforts to develope nukes to force a peaceful solution. So far in history, nuclear weapons have served to prevent world wars. If they ever fail us, well, i cant imagine what comes next. Survival of the fittest, I spose.