re: #222 Dark_Falcon

Good point. But I don’t like it. I wish we had Newport News’ sister ships refitted and positioned off North Korea again (the Des Moines an the Salem were used for fire support during the Korean War. The Nork’s missile pad being beaten to pieces by a rain of shells would be something I’d like to see. I don’t advocate it really, but it would be nice.

That might be cool to see, but I see the downside. Let’s assume BHO were to be a bigger hawk then GWB and take out the missile sites. The Nork’s could justly claim a unprovoked attack and decide to use a measured response by taking out a US military site in the south. Then BHO would have to escalate and off we go to a third war. Would that macho response still be popular on the right ?
GWB was not eager to risk it, and I agreed with him.