I caught a little nuance in a show on NPR this morning while driving to the airport. I don't know if this was the local or national broadcast but they were discussing the 3rd Infantry Division re-training down in the Mojave desert.
They were using freight containers to simulate a village in Afghanistan, Iraq or, wait for it, NORTH KOREA.
Yeah.. that almost slipped by me. Is someone seriously considering invading North Korea next? The same North Korea that has nuclear weapons and a half-mad dictator. The same North Korea that can destroy Seoul in a couple of hours--even without the use of nuclear weapons?
Apparently so or the Army wouldn't have people training for it. I whole-heartedly approve of trying to spread the lessons learned in Afghanistan and Iraq to troops will be deployed over there again but I have to think it is crazy to even consider deploying armed forces into North Korea. It is not Iraq. Not by a long chalk.
There is a very good article on the folly of engendering nuclear warfare with North Korea at this site. (It was written in April of 2003 and posits the situation could be much worse now that the North Koreans have had time to "harvest" the plutonium for another half-dozen bombs).
Posted by artandscience at February 12, 2004 03:43 PM