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Hey you. Mr. Chickenhawk. Lemme explain something to you real quick.

I hear you today. You’re annoyed. How dare North Korea test their missiles! After we told them not to. It’s insulting. We should have shot them down! Or bombed the launchers before they fired. Kill the maniac!

America! Fuck yeah!

Ok, now that you got that out of your system, sit down, shut up and let me explain to you the realities facing us when dealing with the Korean dictator.

Fact: N. Korea has nukes. That’s bad. It’s also a limiting factor. When an adversary has the capability to destroy a hundred of thousand people in the blink of an eye, you have to be careful with your approach.

Fact: N. Korea is an aggressive country lead by a man with a inferiority complex about his place in the world. It feels slighted by the US and many other countries. The result is that it will lash out to prove its strength.

Fact: The N. Korean army has thousands of artillery pieces within easy range of S. Korea. Many of them are capable of putting normal, incendiary, or chemical rounds on the S. Korean capital of Seoul. Most of the 20K+ US troops located in country are inside that range as well.

Fact: The N. Korean missile program is entirely capable of hitting targets in Japan with ease. Once again, these missiles could carry a number of warheads, all of them bad. The possibility, however remote, that they could hit the US should be considered as well. I regard that likelihood as exceedingly remote, but our military leaders must weigh that as well.

Basically, what I’m telling you is that despite the ease that the US could do what you want, it’s not that simple. Sure, we could destroy their missiles. But the consequences of that action could involve a lot more than you bargain for.

So, unless you really want to see a few hundred thousand people, including a number of our troops, put at risk; I suggest you stop talking like a redneck moron. The world isn’t a Hollywood movie. Our countries will doesn’t always get its way. The hero doesn’t always get the hot chick. And frontal assaults are rarely a good idea.