Posted on 10/10/2006 6:33:55 AM PDT by quesney
A new approach is needed. America has three key strategic goals in the wake of the North Korean nuclear test. The first is to enhance the security of those American allies most directly threatened by North Korean nuclear weapons: Japan and South Korea....The second is to exact a price from North Korea for its nuclear program severe enough to frighten Iran and any other rogue regimes considering following the North Korean path...The last is to punish China.
...To meet these three goals, the United States should adopt four swift policy responses: Step up the development and deployment of existing missile defense systems....End humanitarian aid to North Korea and pressure South Korea to do the same...Invite Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to join NATO — and even invite Taiwan to send observers to NATO meetings...Encourage Japan to renounce the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and create its own nuclear deterrent.
Countries like North Korea and Iran seek nuclear weapons because they imagine that those weapons will enhance their security and power. The way to contain them is to convince them otherwise....rogue regimes must be made to suffer for their dangerous nuclear ambitions.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
...oh, and Russia. Frum offers his recommendation sfor dealing with North Korea-China as a template for also dealing with the similarly symbiotic relationship between Russia and Iran. It's time we stopped allowing ourselves to be played by these second-rate countries.
My answer: Bomb the living s**t out of one and the others will get the message loud and clear.
Or... we can do what the leftists prefer: Sit around wringing our hands and mewling, "What will we do? What will we do?"
Or... we can do what the isolationists prefer: Close our eyes, put our fingers in our ears, hum loudly and pretend it won't have any effect on Fortress America.
We need to beef up our anti-missle capability and vow to shoot down any missile leaving Korean airspace....something we should have done last summer.
What to do? Simple. Prepare for world war. It will come. Deny it though one may, it will come. This is a lesson that the UK failed to learn from WW1, to her detriment (and ours) by the late 1930s.
Wonder why we didn't do it last summer. Perhaps because our missile defense system doesn't work?
David Frum ping
The about sums it up at this point. Its sad, but true.
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