I understand your points, and do agree with many.
But I think I differ in one key regard -- I believe we are already at war with Iran. I think that most of the killing going on over there now is caused by Iranian trained, supplied and directed nut-jobs. And I think this administration's choice of tactics to fight Iran has been to bleed them by placing a bridge-head on both sides of them.
I don't think it's coincidence we hit Afganistan and Iraq. I think it was all done with keeping the idea of Iran in check, and contained. Perhaps that was even the plan from the beginning.
I don't believe a full-scale military invasion is part of the strategy.
And Korea, I think, is not really that important to us.
How old are you? NK will do as they very well please and have proved it so 28 years ago. When I posted our policy with Korea was starting to look like LBJ part two I meant where night after night LBJ made empty threats he had no intentions of backing up to the NK government.
A hostile act of war was done against the United States by NK and all he would do was sit there running his yap with threats he never made good own. The only thing he did about the PUEBLO was Court Martial the Captain when it should have been LBJ's and McNamara's hide for intentionally hazarding a vessel. NK still has the ship BTW. Which is part of the reason we are where we are today with NK. They don't take our threats to mean anything and for several decades have used our state department as a skirt to hide behind just as they are doing now.
As for Iran? we have an alliance which could handle them but again the U.S. State Department has them bogged down now by interfering with their handling of terrorist at their borders. The enemies of Israel have no better friend than our own state department a sad but true political fact. Every single time they act to control terrorism in their nation a diplomat from the State Department hops a plane and tells them to stop then becomes the mouth piece for the U.N. Why? They are only cleaning house. Had we stayed out of Israel's internal affairs many of our problems may have well been taken care of for us. Remember it was Israel who originally set back Saddam's nuke program not us. Ronnie was smart enough to stand back.