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Remember that Seoul and most of South Korea is well within the range of North Korea's artillery and rockets. You still want to see "shock and awe?" Is the American answer to crisis always to be, Kill?

North Korea could exploit the current crisis to tremendous advantage.

Confident of continued Chinese protection and Russian diplomatic support, the secretive Stalinist state is supposedly signaling a readiness to return to stalled six-party disarmament talks.

The North Korean signals follow hints from the United States that it could live with a nuclear North Korea for an interim period provided Pyongyang (a) does not put nuclear warheads on its missiles, and (b) abandons all arms proliferating activities.

North Korean weakness is in some sense an asset; with little to lose and nowhere to run or hide, the regime would probably unleash its military might on South Korea--where thousands of US troops are sitting ducks--and Japan before suffering defeat and collapse. Like a grenade-wielding terrorist willing to die and take an airplane of hostages down with him, Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will never surrender. His threats of war must therefore be taken with the utmost seriousness.

South Korea is in no mood for a confrontation. The country is divided and weak, with no will to resist should push come to shove.

Japan is anxious and apprehensive--and angry--but not in any position to needlessly antagonize or provoke Pyongyang.

Beijing is apparently resigned to putting up with its belligerent vassal--which, in spite of the risks and aggravation, provides the People's Liberation Army with a potentially useful deterrent to possible US intervention in the event of a Chinese assault on breakaway, self-ruled Taiwan. China may be trying to engineer an eventual change or gradual collapse of the Kimist regime. There could even be a coup--with at least tacit Chinese backing--one day, but not now.

So for the time being, Dear Leader could make out like a bandit. Economic assistance, security assurances, international recognition and respect, even prestige-enhancing, protracted reunification talks with the South--the whole nine yards--are all his for the taking.

The above analysis assumes a reasonably rational actor, of course, which, in Kim's case, may be a hopelessly unrealistic assumption. Sensing weakness on the part of his real and imagined enemies, and feeling ever more encircled, he could just as easily escalate the crisis--with new nuclear and/or missile tests--as move to intelligently exploit and end it.

Response to "ChinaConfidential"

point 1 -- The consequences of starting a war of choice on the Korean penninsula is definitely mass murder. So how would that make the US or those who push for such an act any better than Kim Jong Il? Actually it would be much more evil. So moral arguments in this regard are absurd.

NK is very far away from building any credible nuclear ICBM that can reliably reach the continental US. So in order to "save" South Korea & Japan, and to prevent a nuclear war, you suggest that the US start one. Hilarious. It seems that the right wing foreign policy of reductio ad absurdum -- "kill them in order to help them" has returned.

point 2 -- Engagement stopped progress on their plutonium bomb. GW Bush's diplomatic hostility, invasion of Iraq (who was also accused of secret WMD programs) and abrogation of the Agreed Framework, prompted their paranoid resumption.

point 3 -- Ha, ha, funny. You last point does sound like satire. You hope that a complete surprise attack would work. Interesting to bet millions of lives on an unproven, unlikely hope. Yes -- funny, what is the purpose of spending billions of dollars on defense if it won't work. Indeed. "Where did the money go?" Funny.

The fact that this "China Confidential" is featured as a blogger on the Washington Post, evokes an odd deja vu of watching Peter Sellers performing in "Dr. Strangeglove".

Cbhina confidential, tell us something we don't know. When did your handlers start trumpeting this new quasi-war?. Republicans have had enough time since 2000 and now all of the sudden they care about NK?, you don't even care about Afghanistan anymore......just talking points before November because the GOP Titanic's going down, isn't it?

As is the case you think your bombs and manipulations rule the world...The only nation to drop a bomb is now paraniod of everyone else having one .I think that odd. We talk of selling technology to enemies, we too sell technologies. In the arrogance of this nation we attempt to rule the world.Go forth and conquer my freind, you have earned the wrath of nations because of blind allegeiences such as yours.

Bed-wetting hysteria and historical ignorance about our military experience in Korea is a really dangerous combination.

Solution: remedial reading courses on the Korean War. If you think that air power--either from carriers or air fields--would stop a ground invasion of SK by NK, you gotta lot to learn and unlearn.

Real patriots invest some time and energy in learning about their country's past instead of just reacting.

Yeah, let's use our military so all that money does not go to waste. Brilliant.

China Confidential, why are you still here? You should be blogging from your military posting either in SK along the 38th parallel or in Iraq.

Why not come right and say what you are really thinking? That you hope the United States will hit NK with a massive nuclear strike? There now, that wasn't so hard was it?

One last question. Are you willing to give your life to stop Kim or just advocating that others do so?

Well, an interesting thought-Strike, annailate, and move on. Actually you support much of my thinking-although I think we should start with a total and severe blockade, perhaps 2 carrier battle groups, and serve notice that if anything at all threatens our Naval vessels our action will be swift, decisive, and complete. We let this happen because of our inaction and this is what it has reaped. Kim Jong and his companions are absolutely insane. Factions in the middle east have been totally intolerant of society in general outside of thier own circle since their beginnings. We, Americans, for a large part, have become totally obsessed with our material lives and have become so self centered. We care less about real values, our own other countrymen and women, our neighbors, and even our own children, instead too many spend their time absorbed with the "me syndrome". In reality, you can't even pay for good service or support anymore. So very much has been lost in this country!!! I also think our experiment and our survival may well be limited having run its course. Those that don't spend all their time trying to "accrue and earn" more expect to be "given" more by those that spend their time accrueing and earning more. Beautiful culture we have put in place. I have a close friend who became so disenchanted with his own countrymen that all he wanted to do was come to the United States and become a citizen. He has lives like more of a patriot than probably half of the native population that I refer to as "situational patriots". Sometimes he now wonders if Australia is currently the only place left to go.

Wake up people. Don't wait until it is too late. These cultures and societies are only bent on one thing - our demise and their way forced on everyone left alive - they even kill, torture, and maim their own if they don't bend absolutely to their way. They only practice total and absolute "intolerance" and always have.

China Confidential responds:

1. Totalitarian North Korea is an avowed enemy of the United States and a proven proliferator of nuclear and missile technologies. The mass murdering regime has repeatedly threatened the US with nuclear annihilation.

2. Given North Korea's intentions--to continue developing and proliferating nuclear weapons--and vow to reunify the Korean peninsula--appeasement will have catestrophic consequences. Strangulating sanctions are also likely to fail. The secretive Stalinist state has made clear that it will lash out with ferocity; Dear Leader Kim Jong-il and his criminally insane cronies will trigger a holocaust before they go down.

3. This leaves the military option. To exclude it is illogical, irresponsible, in fact. Is the US capable of destroying North Korean military and nuclear bases and facilities before North Korea can effectively retaliate against South Korea--where US troops are sitting ducks--and US ally Japan? Hopefully, yes. If not, the US--and the whole world--is in trouble. If not, what was the purpose of spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on defense? Where did the money go?

the China Confidential blog writer sounds as crazy as the official press of N Korea

where is it the US role to decide what other nation states do or don't do ... we're not seat of the world empire, we're a most powerful but not omnipotent nation among many

only nuclear attack could be swift enough, otherwise we're stuck in a land war in Asia, and we don't have the population or geographic advantage - and if we pre-emptively attack a nation - who hasn't threatened the US at all in reality, only our S Korean buddies ... we would be the dangerous ones - nuking people who haven't hurt us for 50 years ... our world standing would be zero

North Korea thrives on US attention - it makes the leader all the more self-important ... ignore these guys, ignore their nuke program ... monitor very closely who comes and goes, but don't worry - easier for terrorists to steal one from old soviet republics than ship the crap NK is producing

count on China to put the squeeze on NK .... they don't want NK passing nukes around, and they have NK by the short hairs ...

By the way, you can't post any comment on this "China Confidential" blog, has teh WaPo verified if the author isn't somebody acting as a mole planted on purpose to promote military actions agaist NK?, for his tone this dude sounds like a hard core republican. We don't need this crap.

China Confidential's confidence in Administation's competence to pull off such a feat is touching. His unstated but implied belief that there are currently enough U.S. troops to undertake such an endeavor compel me to request of him the brand of his Kool Aid. It sure must be something.

I would like to make another general comment here:

I hail from Germany, by the way. Recently, have been trailing through some old newspaper articles from the Nazi era ("Der Stürmer", etc.) and have made a shocking discovery:

We have been there before!

Pseudo intelligent/ intellectual discussions about why it is a good idea to go to war have been here before and we know where it all ended. Let's be honest, one can advance almost any argument for anything and sound fairly convincing at that. Don't think that the Nazis did not have what seemed at the time to be good arguments, irrespective of whether they stood the test of time or not:

(i) Germany was unfairly treated by the victorious allies from WWII and burdened with onerous war reparations; or
(ii) Jews are only advancing themselves and are responsible for turbo capitalism and the stock market crash of the 1930's;
(iii) Bolshevism is a menace to the West's way of life and cultural legacy and needs to be stamped out at any cost;

ETC ETC:

Don't think the Nazis were all stupid brutes that have never put forward any sort of intellectually sounding argument. Of course they did, as every other regime in the world has been doing since time immemorial. Everyone claims to have their reasons; even the DPRK does.

But humanity after two world wars should have learned one lesson at the very least. Whatever happens, war should really be the VERY VERY last resort and only to be used to repel an actual military attack.

No war for so called strategic reasons.
No so called pre emptive wars.
No wars to install a different regime.

No war to establish democracy.
No war to establish Islam.
No war to establish communism.
No war to establish Christianity.

By the way - all four in their own right have very powerful arguments going for them - but going to war??!!

No war to make territorial gains derived from whatever claims.
No war to try out military equipment and justify a military budget.
No war to capture natural resources.

I thought these were principles humanity seemed to agree on post WWII. Are we after all heading for WW III? Is memory so short? Do we need to feel (the pain of war and destruction) before we understand? Perhaps it is the human condition.

Even providing prominent space for a liberal discussion about why it is good to go to war is in my view very irresponsible at the very least. Even free speech should be bounded by certain taboos, incl. race, sex and any other kind of defamation and abuse as well as war mongering!

God bless.

if you attack north korea they will respond with all they have and this will be the end of japan and south korea as we know them.

china and perhaps also russia will not tolerate a us invasion in their back yard and support dprk and we will have world war three on our hands.

all these happy go lucky calls for war - people who have never suffered war you should have your arm cut off or some of your family killed and/ or your house bombed or have to seek shelter from nightly bombing raids - that will teach you some humulity before mouthing off lightly about going to war!

Please remember that Seoul, capital of South Korea, is only thirty miles from the DMZ. Any use of military force by the US could result in hundreds of rockets and artillery shells lobbed into heavily populated areas.

Please also remember the role of China. They supply the North with its oil and most of its food. They last thing they would want is a US presence on their borders. Let them worry about the local crazies. Let us help China and Japan develop containment strategies.

Hilarious. The WaPo finally loses its collective mind. I don't think this is going to help you sell your newspaper, do you?

I am appalled that a column so bloodthirsty and short-sighted would be posted, anonymously, yet, on a reputable newspaper's website.

Unless this is a Swiftian "Modest Proposal"-like bit of satire, in which case I am disappointed in its lack of humor but impressed by the Post's intestinal fortitude.

Also, we are at war with Oceania and always have been, right? Right?

Seems like NK's nuclear posturing and its intentions to develop useable nukes has left the US with no viable military option beyond "boy oh boy, you guys better just stop doing that or you'll be sorry." The main reason given for this declawing of the American Eagle is the expected terrible loss of life and economic disaster NK purportedly WILL rain down upon SK, specifically its capital city of Seoul. In a city like this, 1 million war deaths from renewed hostilities is probably a very low estimate.

Recall that the war between these 2 countries has been held in abeyance for 53 years by an armistice, not a peace treaty. During this lengthy time period, NK has built-up its fortifications and offensive weapons to withstand an eventual resumption of open hostilities with SK. Concurrently SK has expanded its capital, Seoul, as the seat of its govt and economic capabilities and raised this city's population to over 20 million, all within firing range of NK's 10,000 bunkered artillery pieces. What did the NK's know that the SK's did not? NK does not need nukes to annihilate SK - it can be done with good old-fashioned howitzers because for over 50 years, SK has been enriching the already target-rich environment known as Seoul. NK only needs nukes for worldwide proliferation, for the cash.

So thanks to SK's inability or unwillingness to conduct itself like a country still at war, the US and Korea's neighboring Asian countries are preempted from using or expounding a valid military threat against a nuclear hopeful NK. As for China, NK has long been its proxy (think Iran & Hezbollah) and remains so today. The Asian mind uses centuries like the West uses months. China will do nothing to trim NK fangs, though they will be willing to negotiate and discuss and posture until Pyongyang freezes over. And Putin's fledgling neo-Mother Russia does not have a dog in this fight, but anything that drains US resources can only be seen as abetting Putin's deliberate climb back to international prominence.

The US has only Japan and Taiwan as allies in this dilemma, simply because they are the only ones with anything remotely similar to lose. The prospect of this confrontation 'forcing' Japan into once again becoming a formidable military power defies credulity. Dec. 7th, 1941, was only 10 years before the start of the still ongoing Korean War.

Pressure should be placed upon SK to fashion an agreement with NK to finally end their half-century long war for the obvious reason: the US and its 2 allies will not relent from stymieing NK's nuclear weapons push and will not stop from bombing the North, which will result in its retaliation against Seoul. If this scenario is permitted to occur, the minimum result will be annihilation of both NK and SK. If American soldiers are going to die in a war to save Seoul, you can bet many more SK citizens will also meet a similar fate.

When SK realizes it has no choice but to negotiate an end to the war with NK, Kim Jung Il will strike a severe bargain with his Southern countrymen, but it is a lesser evil for SK than a nuke flea market. The US cannot and will not permit NK to proliferate nukes to whoever is willing to pay for them for use throughout the world, simply because Kim Jung Il has 20 million Seoul hostages given to him by shortsighted SK govts for over 50 years. The SK's have made their bed, now they must lie in it, even if it means agreeing to subjugate themselves to Jung Il's presidency over a Unified Korea. I suspect he will not find his new, more progressive subjects quite as docile as those he reigned in his former NK dictatorship. But that will be an internal Korean problem.

War with NK? I don't think so. Now with the three stooges conducting the show - it would be disastrous.

My earlier criticism was sincerely felt, not profane, and even offered advice. Your failure to print it is as cowardly as this "article" and the anonymity with which your organization published it.

Scrubbing a submitted comment from a subscriber is an affirmative act. You folks better start eating your Wheaties.

Cheney and Rumsfeld are the real enemies of the free world not North Korea or Iran. Please people wake up and see this. Bush spoke of the New World Order. This is part of his plan.

Brilliant. What could possibly go wrong? CW is there's too much NK artillery too close to Seoul. Greg Palast writes that Bush quashed an investigation into AQKhan just before he sold bomb blueprints etc. to NK. Why? Financing for Khan's Islamic Bomb was coming from Saudi. Good friends of the Bushes, don't you know. Just business.

http://www.gregpalast.com/

CynicalDude-- you are brilliant. I think we need to put our resumes in for the Bush Administration. We could achieve all of the US goals abroad --neutralize the 'Axis of Evil', form a true alliance with China and make France green with envy. I hope Condoleeza reads blogs.

Wow, the Washington Post has found somebody more evil than Kim Jong Il: the Chinaconfidential blogger who advocates as his first resort recommendation -- triggering the deaths of millions of Asian people, based upon highly speculative assumptions.

Kim Jong Il has negligently starved his people, but neo-con triggered war could overtake Kim Jong Il in "the body count game."

(Dark humor begs to ask the question: who killed more Iraqis, Saddam or GW Bush? GW Bush seems to be pulling ahead.)

Asia must be so often "blessed" to have such an "un-malicious" and "non-un-thoughtful" "friend" in this "reporter."

At least this opinionist is refraining from spilling crododile tears claiming that actions that would kill North Korean people are to help their plight. -- The often tossed right-wing foreign policy reductio ad absurdum (aka the Vietnam War and basically neo-con foreign policy) of "we must kill them in order to help them."

I didn't think it was possible, but the WAPO has found someone even more insane than Krauthammer...

I'd love to bomb NK regime into submission but we've already proved we're willing to attack a country. We have rep now, no thanks to democrats. We can make a threat and take a pass on this one.

if we nuke the north pole ,kill santa before xmas , how much more terrible kim jongs fate would be ?

toshiro -

That is pretty brilliant. I'd like to extend your thought. How bout we cut a deal with NK with the provision that they send 400k of their troops to Iraq! Give them an ongoig share of oil revenue for maintaining stabilty. Then we could hit Iran full throttle and split the oil with China.

Attack NK? Lousy idea. We're not their primary enemy. Why make us one?

What we should do is embrace NK as an ally. Figure out what military hardware Jong Il might like as a substitute for nukes. We could even spice up the deal by offering to remove US troops from SK.

SK might think we're turning our backs on them. They might be right. But then again, NK is more dangerous and SK, while a good trade partner, their current politics of weak support for America makes them an expendable ally. It's nothing personal, just international power politics, nothing more.

Of course there is concern for human life, AMERICAN human life. If we fail to act now (as we have over the last decade) we risk the loss of hundreds of thousands of American lives if and when Dear Leader hands off his nukes to the myriad of terrorist organizations at his fingertips. At the very least a complete embargo enforced by the United USN should be implemented. While a direct attack would kill possibly hundreds of thousands we would be doing those who survive a favor by bringing democracy and stability and an end to famine, once the north is democratically re-unified with the south.

The radical right, neo-con proponents of pre-emptive strikes are the jihadists of America. It's time for change. I commend the WaPo for letting the sane and sober see the perverted thinking and ill-considered opinions of what is, hopefully, a minority.

More on wet brains, the symptom of former chronic alcoholism of recoverning and active alcoholics: the flight to fantasy is a major symptom of the disease.
Mel Gibson claims that his DUI arrest was the "best thing that" happened to him, much as fellow wet brainer President Bush claims that we're winning the fight against terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the world has never been safer. Both men are no longer drinking, thankfully, so they claim. But the irreversible damage to their frontal lobes by many years of daily heavy drinking may have already been done. Notice that in his press conference the other day Bush abruptly turned the conversation away from North Korea and Iraq to observations about the clothes the reporters were wearing. It wasn't gallows humour. His small talk sure ate away at the time until the press conference was over, with still unanswered questions about what Bush was going to do about North Korea and Iraq. The White House press corps was as much putty in his hands as Dianne Sawyer was in Gibson's for her ABC television interview with the DUI star the other night. Gibson dismissed his drunken anti-Semitic tirade when he was arrested, as the truth about his feelings about Jews ("in vino veritas," wine gets us to speak the truth). And it's probably true for both he and fellow wet brainer Bush that a drunken watchman never knows the correct time. The standard therapeutic measure however for recovering alcoholics is that they ought to stay away from bars, social gatherings where alcoholic drinks are served and avoid contact with heavy drinkers and active alcoholics, because the temptation to pick up a drink in those social environments is usually irresistible. Gibson now has been arrested violating the rule, but Bush has not yet been caught. And I say 'yet' because it is a telling sign of wet brain syndrome, if not actually an indication that Bush has had a slip-up, when we find that his cabinet and closest advisers are very heavy drinkers, one an active alcoholic (Cheney,almost surely a wet brainer), Rumsfeld, and Karl Rove. It's unusual in the annals of research on wet brains to find another example such as Bush, every afternoon when the others are belting down a few gin and tonics unwinding, to socialize with them and drink only a coke or a glass of cold milk.
In the rare cases where the wet brainer resists backsliding, he or she usually has an extremely aggressive outlet to reinforce the abstinence. Some wet brainers beat their wives, others go to war, still others soon again fall off the wagon. The inner fight not to backslide terrifies the recoving drunk, so, not able to fight himself, if he is a wet brainer, he fights someone else. The temptation to bomb North Korea must deeply torment Bush when he leaves the oval office without a good stiff one to get him through the night.

Putting aside the high casualities the U.S. will experience in a war with North Korea,
Putting aside the financial constraints,
Putting aside the manpower issues our country already faces with its military,

One glaring problem remains: What will China do? I hardly think China will allow the U.S. to invade North Korea. And if it doesn't, you're talking a direct conflict between two nuclear armed countries. I don't know if you live a major metropolitian city in the U.S., but I do. I don't want my family to die in a mushroom cloud in WWIII.

Someone from CHINA wants us to solve this ? How about CHINA solving it ? We have adequate demonstration our present administration can't be trusted with crayons.

To the fools that support shock and awe. Is there any concern for human life. If we bomb North Korea; then they will attack South Korea causing millions of casualties. We have already caused enough death in Iraq. Stop the maddness, negotiate a resolution to the matter. We are heading towards a world war.

Why shock and awe attacks? After that, what? Slavery! Which country's next? But my real concern is that George Bush, a lifelong alcoholic, may have a "Wet Brain." The reason I raise this concern is that even though the President has been given a clean bill of health each year, he has yet to be given the kind of neurological brain exam that would tell whether he is partially brain dead, as a result of a diet of a fifth of Chivas Regal a day for 2 decades before he went on the wagon. And as most of us know, simply giving up booze does not meant that we're going to recover from the neural, cerebral and physical damage of our addiction. I mean, consider the way Bush slurs his language every now and then. Just the other day in the Rose Garden answering reporters' questions, he broke into his Connecticut-Down East Maine-Texas twang and referred to his limited vocabulary, stating that the Democratic calls for "a time table for withdrawal from Iraq" meant in his limited vocabulary the same thing as "cut and run." I've often wondered about the changes in Bush since he gave up booze. From all accounts, he once spoke in the well-educated received pronunciation and vocabulary of one you might have expected was educated at the premier Prep School, Andover, at Yale and at Harvard. And we know that once there was evidence of that kind of elite education in the way Bush presented himself (See Nicholas Lemann's account of Bush at Harvard Business School in the New Yorker Magazine .Alas, it's all gone. Now we see someone whom seems desperately to speak in the vernacular and manner of someone who was entirely self-educated on a Texas ranch, with the rudimentary education and social skills of a cowpuncher, or of a gunslinger in a saloon. Cynics might argue that Bush is trying to affect the lingo that his political handlers have found that appeals to most Americans. But I don't buy that at all. No one in his right mind acts and talks belligerently in broken English unless they're uneducated, drunk or have been formerly a drunk and now have a "wet brain." I know many recovering alcoholics, some of them with "wet brain" syndrome. Outwardly, they seem normal but you'd have to have known them before the booze started to kill their liver, start to kill the brain cells of the frontal lobe of their cerebellum, the center of intellect, and kill off as, well the part of the brain that controls speech and mood. They're completely different from their old self, usually in some unpleasant, even psychotic, way. Some have become sociopaths, and wind up in jail or die from violence. That's wet brain for you. We really can't rule out or verify a diagnosis of wet brain for Bush until he submits to an MRI, blood and neurological tests for "wet brain." And since his Vice-President, who. like the President, has been convicted for drunk driving (in Cheney's case, a few times), the vice-president ought to be made to take the test for "wet brain" as well.
It's time the media paid more attention to "wet brain" syndrome and the dangers of electing people afflicted with it. We have to stop electing to office people who are alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual predators, and sex addicts. It's too dangerous to national security. And we have to stop electing people who claim to be reformed alcoholics, yet who secretly suffer from "wet brain." Peace and the survival of the world require that the wet brains no longer qualify for elected office.

North Korea is an "errant province" which Truman allowed to be split off from south KOREA when he relieved General MacArthur and followed a Lyndon Johnson policy of "limited response" in the 1950 Korean war.
It is abundantly clear now that the Chinese should have been driven back to the Yalu River the same way the North Koreans were by any means possible; including nuclear weapons. Then all of Korea would be free and properous and we wouldn't have to be debating the same position as in 1953; when the liberals cut and run.

WaPo actually will publish this sort of thing by an anonymous author? That fact is more irrational than the content of the article.
But then after your Iraq hmmmhmmm, errors of judgement? enthuisiasms? perhaps it should not be so surprising.

GW 04 = Failed Foreign Policy. Squandered tax $$'s.

Is this supposed to be a joke?

Life is full of situations where all of the possible choices are evil. So you can't just point your finger and criticize a position for being evil, you have to also provide an alternative that is less evil.

How long is it going to take before we understand this? You can't just arrive at peace, the whole world has to agree on it together.

Me thinks the US Empire should start war that kills millions on speculation that Kim Jong Il may give bin Laden nuke that he may use to kill hundred thousand. Me think this fuzzy math. Me thinks no more cannon fodder anyway. Me thinks Bush = John Wayne - YEEHAW!

I find it rather incredible that a news organization as the Washington Post with such an outstanding reputation would permit such ignorant rubbish to appear on their website, regardless of whether it is explicitly endorsed or not. Although I admit to often reading the Post in order to obtain a wider knowledge and even wisdom about the world and its varied affairs, in this particular case I feel as though my IQ has been substantially reduced by this waste of a "blog". Nevermind the obvious inane idea for the United States to militarily attack North Korea, this 'special' author apparently speaks for all readers by resorting to neocon terms such as "rogue state" and "mentally-ill" in attempting to relate and describe entire foreign nations of people. Sadly, even a moderately educated and attentive reader gains little in terms of additional knowledge or understanding, unless of course that particular reader works in the Bush Administration.

Why shock and awe attacks? After that, what? Slavery! Which country's next? But my real concern is that George Bush, a lifelong alcoholic, may have a "Wet Brain." The reason I raise this concern is that even though the President has been given a clean bill of health each year, he has yet to be given the kind of neurological brain exam that would tell whether he is partially brain dead, as a result of a diet of a fifth of Chivas Regal a day for 2 decades before he went on the wagon. And as most of us know, simply giving up booze does not meant that we're going to recover from the neural, cerebral and physical damage of our addiction. I mean, consider the way Bush slurs his language every now and then. Just the other day in the Rose Garden answering reporters' questions, he broke into his Connecticut-Down East Maine-Texas twang and referred to his limited vocabulary, stating that the Democratic calls for "a time table for withdrawal from Iraq" meant in his limited vocabulary the same thing as "cut and run." I've often wondered about the changes in Bush since he gave up booze. From all accounts, he once spoke in the well-educated received pronunciation and vocabulary of one you might have expected was educated at the premier Prep School, Andover, at Yale and at Harvard. And we know that once there was evidence of that kind of elite education in the way Bush presented himself (See Nicholas Lemann's account of Bush at Harvard Business School in the New Yorker Magazine .Alas, it's all gone. Now we see someone whom seems desperately to speak in the vernacular and manner of someone who was entirely self-educated on a Texas ranch, with the rudimentary education and social skills of a cowpuncher, or of a gunslinger in a saloon. Cynics might argue that Bush is trying to affect the lingo that his political handlers have found that appeals to most Americans. But I don't buy that at all. No one in his right mind acts and talks belligerently in broken English unless they're uneducated, drunk or have been formerly a drunk and now have a "wet brain." I know many recovering alcoholics, some of them with "wet brain" syndrome. Outwardly, they seem normal but you'd have to have known them before the booze started to kill their liver, start to kill the brain cells of the frontal lobe of their cerebellum, the center of intellect, and kill off as, well the part of the brain that controls speech and mood. They're completely different from their old self, usually in some unpleasant, even psychotic, way. Some have become sociopaths, and wind up in jail or die from violence. That's wet brain for you. We really can't rule out or verify a diagnosis of wet brain for Bush until he submits to an MRI, blood and neurological tests for "wet brain." And since his Vice-President, who. like the President, has been convicted for drunk driving (in Cheney's case, a few times), the vice-president ought to be made to take the test for "wet brain" as well.
It's time the media paid more attention to "wet brain" syndrome and the dangers of electing people afflicted with it. We have to stop electing to office people who are alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual predators, and sex addicts. It's too dangerous to national security. And we have to stop electing people who claim to be reformed alcoholics, yet who secretly suffer from "wet brain." Peace and the survival of the world require that the wet brains no longer qualify for elected office.

so let me get this straight. Lets nuke pyongyang tomorrow, kill a million or so instantly. Then, one of two thinks happen: Hell rains on Seoul, where another million or so are killed in a NK counter attack, or Hell rains on Seoul, where it is rendered unliveable from the Nuclear Fallout. Think SK will go for this? Lemme guess, you dont care.

We will not attack North Korea. The pentagons estimate is at least one million casualties. The far greater threat to the United States and Israel is Pakistan. I'm not so concerned while President Musharraf is in control. But there have been two attempts on his life. Unlike Korea, Pakistan has a large part of their population who are active supporters of the Taliban and Al Qaida. So if Musharraf is killed I think the potential for terrorists to get control of a bomb to be orders of magnitude higher than from N. Korea. there is probably a very good chance that N. Korea bought their technology from Pakistan's A.Q. Khan.

Even if nuclear weapons are not part of the equation it seems that our key relationship with Pakistan relies on the survival of one guy: Musharraf.

The DPRK must pay for their actions. We have been to easy allowing them to continue stalling as we are doing with Iran. Diplomacy to which everyone is calling for has not worked yet. Some of you feel as though there is still hope in diplomacy. However has it worked yet? Negative. We need to get down and dirty with the DPRK ASAP and we need to learn from our mistakes with North Korea and apply our knowledge we gained from this experience on Iran.. They have insulted the entire international community by taking aid in financial and humanitarian ways and not giving any hope of talks back. They say give us a little more and maybe we will talk. They have not talked yet and obviously they seem to not want to talk except after they set off their bomb which to me seems like they collected some explosives to make it seem atomic. However that is besides the point. With the threat of a Nuclear power in asia the US and the entire international community especially China and Russia who have been keeping North Korea afloat must end Kim Jong Il's madness and bring peace to Asia once and for all.

Oh jeez, another proponent of "use of sudden, devastating force" to solve diplomatic problems which are largely of our own making.

Didn't you have enough "Shock and Awe" the first time around?

i was adamantly opposed to the iraqi war and sadly proved to be correct. this, however, is a horse of a different color. it IS a mentally state and a devastating blow using every means at our disposal should be delivered now. yes, that means nuclear weapons. big ones. this would have the serndipitous effect of making other wildly rogue states think twice about acquiring nuclear weapons. north korea would not have done this if they thought we would massively retaliate. we have to show them and the world they were wrong. it's too bad that the bush administration gave more attention to name calling than diplomacy, including bilateral diplomacy leading to a treaty sanctioned security guarantee for north korea (heck, we have friends almost as bad)but that is now water under the bridge. attack relentlessly!