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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 09:53 AM Apr 2017

The red line with North Korea should...

The red line with North Korea should be actionable intelligence they are about to launch a nuclear strike, nothing less justifies an attack which will lead to massive civilian casualties among our ally South Korea.

This isn't Syria or even Iraq. Much of Seoul is within North Korean artillery range.

I trust our military gets this even if Trump doesn't.

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The red line with North Korea should... (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Apr 2017 OP
You have to be careful with that one. They justified the invasion of Iraq based on false still_one Apr 2017 #1

still_one

(92,213 posts)
1. You have to be careful with that one. They justified the invasion of Iraq based on false
Fri Apr 14, 2017, 10:08 AM
Apr 2017

"actionable intelligence"

There have been certain concerns trying to push us into bombing Iran for sometime now. Fortunately, we had President Obama at the helm, and he negotiated a nuclear agreement with Iran.

Also, the "red line" for them based on their rhetoric, is testing.

The bottom line is this, there is no motivation for NK to attack any of its neighbors unless it is attacked. They realize they would be toast if they did a pre-emtive attack.

South Korea has made it very clear that they do not want ANY country engaging in a pre-emtive attack, including the United States.

What needs to be done is to get all parties to the negotiating table, like President Obama and John Kerry did with Iran, and to stop the saber rattling bullshit

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