With tensions still high between the US and North Korea, and experts seeing that continuing in the near term, hawks seem to be hoping to strike while the iron is hot, with Sen. James Inhofe (R – OK) declaring that the US needs to have the plan to attack North Korea prepared “right now.”
Speaking on Newsmax TV today, Inhofe said that the US has the capability to attack North Korea at any time, and that Kim is “just as bad as his daddy was,” so he reckons the attack needs to happen now.
Speaking about the US warships in the area, Inhofe insisted that “a pre-emptive strike from something like that would get their attention.” Since North Korea has been complaining about the increased US military deployments along their coast and border, it is hard to imagine that the US doesn’t have their “attention.”
“We’re going to do what’s necessary,” Inhofe predicted, following similar calls for a unilateral US attack from Rep. Peter King (R – NY), who insisted yesterday that the US has a “moral obligation” to attack North Korea.
Inhofe, Adolf, or Schwartzkof.., Albright.., sounds very familiar.., isn't these names are from Hitlerism time.., just before 1945.
Same thing I thought ..
You're welcome to grab an M-16 and go storming across the DMZ anytime, Senator Inhofe. By the way, what happened to parachuting into downtown Tehran to get those evil mullahs?
However,Americans could now understand how much "all the options are kept on table" terrorize when you are the target and not who threaten.
I'm sure he'll be in church Sunday to pray for "our troops"…innocent "others", be damned.
It's rather sick that Peter King would make it our "moral obligation" to attack N. Korea and start a war that will result in millions of violent deaths.
What is wrong with this guy's brain?
What brain?
I feel it's our countrys "moral obligation" to send both Inhofe and King to the front lines and "bleed" for their beliefs. Put some skin in it boys or shut the hell up.
Before Inhofe was a politician he was a military stenographer; not the war hero he pretends to be. Now he wants to get our troops killed in S. Korea.
These Senators are not US patriots , rather Israel firsters. They want the Holocaust to engulf South Korea and Japan, thinking the US will go scott free. Not an iota of humanity in these blood suckers of the US public. Should be tried in an international court for advocating and urging use of WMDs.
Jason, I'm a huge fan of you and of antiwar.com. In this case, I believe this headline is not accurate. He did not say "attack NK right now." He said "we should be prepared to." His tone is much more measured than you make it sound in the headline. And there is a radical difference between:
"Attack NK right now"
… and …
"We should be prepared to attack NK right now"
You do clarify this a bit in the article, but I believe the headline should be accurate. In this case, unless I'm missing something, it doesn't appear to be.
Again, I have nothing but respect for antiwar.com. Thank you for all you do.
We Americans never tire of killing foreign people.
According to yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: “The U.S. is putting a pause to what several officials described as a step-by-step plan the Obama administration approved earlier this year, dubbed "the playbook," that laid out the sequence and publicity plans for U.S. shows of force during annual war games with South Korea. The playbook included well-publicized flights in recent weeks near North Korea by nuclear-capable B-52 and stealth B-2 bombers, as well as advanced F-22 warplanes. The U.S. stepped back from the plans this week, as U.S. officials began to worry that the North, which has a small nuclear arsenal and an unpredictable new leader, may be more provoked than the U.S. had intended, the officials said.”
Folks,
seen this link?
Since the B52 flights took place on 8th March, so far from NK being provocative it looks like it was the other way round with "The Playbook" being carried out with the exercises as cover.
If so the Nk behaviour is a fairly rational reaction to such provocations.
No one will tolerate colonial "Shows of Force" off their coasts and borders.
The real threat is the west's constant hectoring,badgering and provocation of NK with its perpetual ,incessant virtually round the clock 'military exercises' at their back-door. 'All options are on the table'. What does that mean? That we reserve the 'right' to nuke them if we want to. Is that not blatant provocation? When they launch a sattilete into space we run to the UN for sanctions, and then we do the same thing the next week. What infantile double-standards. Rule of law implies fairness and we do not have that do we? The west cherry picks concerning who can have nukes and who can't and they have no right to. Isreal is the greatest example of this favoritism.
How many nations has NK attacked in the last 50 years? Occupied? On the other hand this is what the West does on a weekly basis. Always threatening some poor little country that can't fight back or actually illegally and immorally attacking and then occupying nations for years so that install regimes of their liking to get contracts,trade routes and access to resources that they crave like locust. The West's typical hypocrisy knows no bounds and has become nothing but a catch-22.
If you tie up a dog,tease it,throw rocks at it and constantly threaten it with death, what do you think the dog will do? Lick the hand that hits it? Finally when the poor dog is badgered to its limit it barks and we all run and hide and shout out; "Rabid dog, Rabid dog, kill it!!! Idiots…
Seems to me the decision should be left up to the S. Koreans since it is they who must confront the blow back. The US should be happy to assist the S. Koreans in any event.
When Republican Congresscritters such as King and Inhofe start talking about “moral obligation” and “We’re going to do what’s necessary” we should remember the last time they urged us to go to war …and you can be sure that they (themselves nor any of their spawn) will have no personal liability involved in the repercussions. Meaning someone else's children and loved ones will be doing the fighting while the stock portfolio's of people like King and Inhofe grow as the MIC starts to suck at the government tit.
I agree with you if change only one word. Put US instead of North Korea dummy
I love how most people on here seem to think that Sen. James Inhofe is an idiot. The truth is he is right, a preemptive strike would not only send a message to North Korea, but to Iran as well. Since the Clinton administration we have been holding talks, issuing sanctions, and guess what it hasn't worked, they have a bomb no matter how crude it may be. So I would ask you people complaining about the senators statements to prove to me that sanctions work and that country's like North Korea and Iran can be reasoned with. I promise you cant prove it because if they had or if they were working North Korea wouldn't have the bomb and Iran wouldn't be as close as they currently are to having one. Further more a country that threatens to use them is a danger to all. The few country's that do posses them don't threaten others with them they are a last line of defense for that moment when every option has been exhausted. So in conclusion I'm not for war but if it could potentially save countless lives from a future nuclear threat I say do the air raid, bomb the targets, and secure the nuclear material. We have the capability and the know how with out having to occupy the country. lives will be lost but not as much as if a nuclear event takes place.