re: #96 Cato the Elder

That would be fine and dandy - if the Norks didn’t have something like 10k conventional medium- and short-range missiles pointed at every elementary school and bowling alley in South Korea, primed, prepped and ready to launch in a matter of minutes. With or without command and control from Pyongyang. All along and behind the border.

This has been the case for years and years.

So - preemptive strike = our allies flattened.

If you can find an easy way out of this bind, please call the Pentagon right now. They’ve been waiting for it longer than the Dear Leader has been in power.

Regardless of who’s president.

The only way is to flatten them first and that would mean testing some of our own “tacticals”. That would not be good as there is usually a large amount of radiation afterwards.