At 12:35 PM 12/30/2002 -0600 Dan Minette wrote:
>It appears that your arguement, and mine are both that we are not talking
>about attacking N. Korea because N. Korea is more dangerous than Iraq now,
>not less. So, it appears the administration is speaking falsely about its
>reasoning.
I think that there are several reasons for this:
1) Both the political and military preparations for attacking a country
have proven recently to be very time-consuming. The Bush Administration
has invested a great deal of political and military preparation into
attacking Iraq, and the Bush Administration expects the "hot war" in Iraq
to be short-lived. Thus, the Bush Administration wants to finish this
Iraq thing quickly before moving on to N. Korea. Moreover, dropping he
Iraq thing right now and focusing on N. Korea makes the Bush Administration
look either hypocritical (what? Iraq suddenly isn't a problem now?) or
easily distracted (message to axis of evil: play "bang the gopher" and
avoid destruction) or else incompetent (how did you not see this coming?)
2) The Bush Administration isn't even sure that a war with N. Korea could
accomplish the goal of disarmament successfullly and with reasonable cost.
They simply need time to formulate a policy response to this development -
which again leads to the fall-back position of finishing off Iraq first.
Moreover, if war with N. Korea *is* deemed necessary, a successful
execution of the war in Iraq will definitely help secure the political
support for this.
JDG
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