Therefore, in my estimation, re-introducing tactical nukes on land (like GPS-guided aircraft bombs, assuming such a thing exists) is a better idea. It deters potential attack in a very public way, presents the DPRK with a vexing targeting problem, and cannot be mistaken for a ballistic missile launch, if they ever have to be used.
You’re essentially doing “theatre” here, aren’t you?
The problem is that this “theatre” is designed to maintain the status quo…which beasically just “kicks the can down the road”, and sentences our children to deal with a fundamentally same cast of characters under conditions that might be even less favorable than the ones we face now.
To put it in absolutely cold-blooded and rather imperialist terms, the cost to us of taking out the Kim Mafia today MIGHT be the decimation of Seoul.
That would be bad, but it might be preferable to the cost of removing them later on, when it is conceivable that they might have Iranian atomic payloads to tip their missiles with.
As far as it goes, the “Go-No Go” decision in this by rights has to rest with the South Koreans, whose capabilities to topple the Kim regime for some reason seem to have been given short shrift pretty much everywhere…they ain’t potted plants over there.
But if they;re not willing to lose a city in order to save their nation, then maybe they ARE potted plants…and we need to rethink our alliances.
