I have no military training whatsoever, and would consider spending a week doing
cartwheels to not acquire one, but were I to have a military mind, my thinking may go something like this.
All of existence "relies" on "thresholds" (i.e., certain constants or boundaries). If you weighed more thanx lbs, you would not be able to walk. If you lived more than x years you would not be alive :). If certain balances were not maintained, life as we know it would cease to exist.
If I knew, with probability 1, that N Korea was going to destroy S Korea or Los Angeles at a certain point in time, then short of evacuating all of S Korea or Los Angeles, my only option would be to destroy N Korea before that time. We would then be at that threshold.
Continuing with this seemingly insane train of thought, the idea would be to apply a devastating blow to N Korea before that date ..... so devastating that it is unable to respond. In principle, that is possible. In practice, something may go wrong. It also may not.
So what you say about the other countries is not a given. Granted, it's not a chance we'd like to take, but it is also not a given. Military minds take such chances, because their world places great emphasis on just two things: defense and offense.
Now I'll go back to wearing my Pope outfit and saying mass in private. :) |
