Originally Posted by
Excargodog
So how close is your definition of “imminent”?
And do you seriously believe after 47 years of chanting “Death to America!” they were going to suddenly mellow out in the non-imminent time you believe we still had?
So what would you assume would have been the advanyage of letting that day get even closer?
DPRK has some pretty nasty anti-US propaganda (they really, really have it out for the 7th Infantry Division), but no one in domestic US politics has been chomping at the bit to bomb them into the Stone Age since the Bush years...I wonder if there are any lessons we can draw from that?