From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 21:49:49 MDT
>are you taking the position that you would prefer to see 10 million
>South Korean citizens die before you would use whatever means
>were at your disposal to do so?
I am taking the position that engineering a situation where you are forced
to use nuclear weapons to kill people for the first time in nearly 60 years
is not a good way to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons; and that
after all was the point of the entire endeavor.
>we can certainly pose a sufficiently plausible threat that makes
>everyone from North Korean Generals on down decide that
>supporting a suicidal dictator is not a good idea.
And what are you going to do when they call your bluff as they almost
certainly will? I remind you that even the CIA admits that
Kim Jong-Il enjoys a great deal of grass root support in his country, far
more than Saddam ever had in his. Yes it's odd that a monster like that
could be popular but the fact is he is.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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