It's just that my feeling is why should we continue to place our young and best in harms's way when we can save all their lives with only 15 minutes of shock and awe?
Look. Hiroshima and Nagasaki gave the world 50 years of relative peace, Korea and Viet Nam withstanding. It kept Russia docile...and China too. It has also kept Pakistan and India from wiping each other out.
North Korea and Iran can burn in hell for all I care.
The nuts are the ones allowing NK and it's regime to actually get this far. The idiot Jung Il should have been nutrilized 52 years ago. The fact that his son is now the leader is only more torment for the spineless politicos who wouldn't listen to the likes of Patton and McAurther.
Had that have happened, there would be 1) no communism in China, 2) No communism is the Soviet Union from around 1950 on, and 3) no such entity as North Korea and Kim Jung Il.
There are times when democracy is a wonderful thing, at others (mostly when we are using all of our military resources to protect ourselves) it is a grind.
The Roman Republic was the closest thing, IMO, to an efficient and effective Military/Civilian government that has ever existed. If we could have their style of governance, I think we wouldn't be worrying about the likes of Kim Jung Il, jr.