09-23-2017, 06:00 AM
(09-20-2017, 04:03 PM)David Horn Wrote: You're acting like Kim is rational in the western sense of the term. I would suspect that an attack on his nuclear program would trigger an artillery barrage of Seoul. More to the point, I doubt we can knock out either his nuclear of missile program entirely, so we gain nothing at huge expense.
Actually, Kim is behaving in a very rational manner. He learned the lesson of Libya, which is that if you don't have nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them then your nation is subject to regime change courtesy of the US government which, as ruler, you are unlikely to survive. I suggest that you ponder what the gold dinar would have meant to the petrodollar and the ability of the US to export inflation has it has done since 1974.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises