The Lamps are Going Out in Asia (North Korea)

[dissimulo]

A long, but well reasoned assessment of the North Korea situation. I think it does a good job of showing why we're in a position where being unpredictable doesn't serve our interests.

http://www.38north.org/2017/09/jdethomas092517/

US President Donald Trump’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 19 may well come to be viewed as “historic,” but not in a good way. This article will leave for others the impact of Donald Trump’s and Kim Jong Un’s reality TV show rhetoric. But the substance of Trump’s speech—including threats to both North Korea and the Iran deal—may have closed any remaining doors to a diplomatic resolution to this crisis surrounding North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. Moreover, Trump’s speech and the North Korean reaction seem to have set us on a path that could very well end in a major war in Asia. The escalating threats and the closing off of diplomatic options by both sides makes it now more likely than ever that President Trump will have to make good on his threat to “utterly destroy” a nation of 25 million people. The strategic consequences of carrying out this threat, even if successful, will be felt for the remainder of this century, largely to the detriment of the United States and the Western World.

More at the link...

[KFhunter]

You might bring a reasonable argument of a diplomatic delay, but not a diplomatic solution. There's never been a diplomatic solution to NK or Iran. Kick the snowball down the road it grows, now it's too big to kick.

[Lenno]

You might bring a reasonable argument of a diplomatic delay, but not a diplomatic solution. There's never been a diplomatic solution to NK or Iran. Kick the snowball down the road it grows, now it's too big to kick.

Bingo!