Quite right. It seems however that incompetent politicians are the rule rather than the exception. Thus it is prudent for the citizenry to be prepared to either back up the government, or replace it if it's too incompetent but refuses to cede power.Blind groper wrote:Going to war, except in extreme situations, is the mark of total incompetence on the part of leaders.
Channel Neville Chamberlain much?Rarely are the results desirable. A much better strategy is the waiting game.
Except for all those bullets fired by clandestine agents of course. And hovering at the brink of global thermonuclear annihilation for a generation was not exactly a secure and comfortable situation. I remember the "duck and cover" drills in school.When the USSR first developed nuclear weapons, there was a faction in the USA, and in the other western allies, which wanted to go to war against them and remove the nuclear weapons. Such an action, as Hitler discovered, is expensive in the extreme, especially in terms of the millions of lives lost. Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed, and the waiting through the Cold War eventually led to a resolution without a single bullet being fired in anger.
Our great mistake was in not simply arresting and imprisoning every single communist sympathizer and spy in the US starting in the 1930's with the China gang who gave China to Mao by sabotaging Chiang Kai Shek's attempts to keep communism out.
During the "Cold War" we should have hung thousands more spies, saboteurs and agents of communism than just the Rosenbergs. We still should. That way the USSR might not have gotten the Bomb before our intercontinental ballistic missile system was so far in advance of theirs that we could prevent them from developing that technology...on the threat of being nuked...just as we should be doing to North Korea.
Can't get much more miserable than starving your own people to death because of an insane notion that everyone in the world is your enemy.North Korea is a sad case, but attacking them would result in more human misery and more human death, than the saner option of watching and waiting. Nations, like people, change over time. We might have to wait decades to get a benign resolution, but it will come, as long as the militarists do not get the upper hand.
But the point is that North Korea CANNOT be permitted to field nuclear missiles, because they are insane enough to actually use them...just like the Jihadists...and so we must do whatever it takes to prevent that, even if it means nuking Pyongyang.
