[PornoDoggy]

Our allies like Japan and S Korea - remember the South Koreans? they live in the neighborhood - might not be too keen on us tossing around nukes in their neighborhood. I hardly think the Chinese and Russians would be particularly supportive, either, even if they wouldn't give a damn if the moron in charge went away.

Blaming the Bush dynasty for the problems with N Korea is kind of silly, IMHO. They've proven themselves to be problems for a long time; I believe they captured the Pueblo back when George I was still a congressman. Little Bush does seem to have gone out of his way to antagonize them; it fits into the cold war mentality of his entourage, and plays very well to a particular domestic audience, though, so that's perfectly understandable. Anyway, I wonder where N Korea would have gotten the idea that walking away from treaties aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation was an acceptable thing?

North Korea is very much a dangerous thing. But nuke em? Not as a "prememptive" measure. Leaving aside the whole issue of letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle, it presents a huge tactical nightmare. If you attempt a so-called "surgical" strike on just the nuclear facilities, then S. Korea is going to be invaded and an awful lot of the 40,000 US troops there will be in very deep shit. If you go all-out nuke from the DMZ north, you've still created enormous problems for the South Koreans, Japanese, and others who live in the neighborhood.