04-22-2020, 03:37 PM
(04-22-2020, 03:27 PM)David Horn Wrote:(04-22-2020, 09:16 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: The USA may be able to reach agreement with countries such as Iran and North Korea.
Agreements based on this-If you don't bother us, we won't bother you.
Keep in mind that the USA no longer needs policies rooted in the Cold War.
Using North Korea as an example.... There could be a situation in which the USA no longer has a problem with North Korean nukes.
The deal? North Korea can keep its nukes, so long as it refrains from deploying missiles with the range to hit the USA. In exchange, the USA would withdraw its forces from South Korea.
So you're good with throwing our South Korean allies under the bus then? This is not a fringe regime; it's rogue, Trump's love letters not to the contrary. They need to be carefully watched and opposed every time they make offensive moves. Opposition doesn't have to be military, but it can't be off the table. It may be required in the future.
Well, I would be perfectly satisfied with throwing North Korea under the "bus" known as the People's Liberation Army (of China). Such would be an improvement.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.