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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (12218)2/15/2006 8:44:49 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 540885
 
N. Korea has a dictator who is starving his people. Why don't we attack his country.

Because the attempt would cause a lot more death and destruction than invading Iraq did. North Korea apparently has nukes, and even without the nukes they could reign destruction with conventional and chemical weapons down on Seoul.

If we could depose the communist regime in North Korea with no more difficulty or destruction than what has happened in Iraq, and if we could quickly bring North Korea up to Iraq's living standards (which are bad by American standards but far above North Korea's even with the legacy of Saddam and the ongoing fighting) than I would support doing it. But if the you assume nearly impossible things just about anything could be justified...

Tim
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