Tuesday, October 22, 2002
An essay by Andrew Mack (distributed by NAPSNET but apparently not posted yet) makes the common sense argument: "For the US, war with Iraq is possible; war with
North Korea is not." It praises the 1994 Agreed Framework as "the least-worst option. It avoided war and it stopped a nuclear weapons program that, within a very few years, would have produced enough surplus fissile material for the cash-strapped North Koreans to export to other pariah states - like Iraq." This is, of course, the conventional wisdom that I have often parroted. But if one looks at the issue from the perspective of loss of human life (regardless of national origin), things might look a little different.
North Korea is not." It praises the 1994 Agreed Framework as "the least-worst option. It avoided war and it stopped a nuclear weapons program that, within a very few years, would have produced enough surplus fissile material for the cash-strapped North Koreans to export to other pariah states - like Iraq." This is, of course, the conventional wisdom that I have often parroted. But if one looks at the issue from the perspective of loss of human life (regardless of national origin), things might look a little different.
