{"id":3862,"date":"2018-01-15T13:55:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2018-01-15T13:55:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:55:23","slug":"the-sins-of-the-father","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"THE SINS OF THE FATHER"},"content":{"rendered":"

The conventional wisdom is that Kim Jong Un is a dangerous psychopath on an insane mission to obtain nuclear weapons.\u00a0 It is undeniable that he is very dangerous and he definitely is determined to get nuclear weapons.\u00a0 A nuclear armed North Korea would constitute a risk that no President could ignore.\u00a0 However, when evaluating him, it is important to realize that the history of the Korean War looks very different to us than it does to Kim Jong Un.\u00a0 Our version of the Korean War is that North Korea attacked South Korea.\u00a0 South Korea was quickly over-run.\u00a0 Douglas McArthur saved our bacon and turned things completely around.\u00a0 He routed the North Korean Army all the way to the border with China.\u00a0 China invaded North Korea and pushed us back to the DMZ.\u00a0 While there is a cease fire, technically the war never ended.<\/p>\n

The part that most Americans do not realize is that during the war the United States soon established air supremacy by destruction of North Korean aircraft in the air and on the ground.\u00a0 The U.S. Far East Air Forces (FEAF) used B29 bombers to conduct massive aerial assaults on transport centers, industrial hubs and to some extent cities.\u00a0 In November 1950 FEAF began an intensive firebombing campaign that incinerated multiple North Korean cities:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sourcewatch.org\/index.php\/Bombing_of_North_Korea_1950-1953<\/a><\/p>\n

A report by an international fact finding mission from East Germany, West Germany, China and the Netherlands stated: \u201cThe members in the whole course of their journey, did not see one town that had not been destroyed and there were very few undamaged villages.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The following article provides estimates of the Korean War Casualties.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/korean-war\/statistics.html<\/a><\/p>\n

These estimates are probably too low, particularly with regard to civilian casualties in North Korea.<\/p>\n

The point is that the government and people of North Korea experienced first-hand the impact of a massive bombing campaign by the United States with little or no capacity for defense.\u00a0 Prior to the war the population of North Korea was estimated to be 9 million.\u00a0 The death toll in North Korea is estimated to be 1.5 million.\u00a0 That is over three times the estimated number of deaths in South Korea.\u00a0 I have seen other estimates suggesting two million civilian deaths in North Korea.\u00a0 By any measure, a significant percentage of the North Korea population died during the war and many of those casualties were civilians killed by U.S. bombing raids.<\/p>\n

We have a long history of fighting wars with massive bombing campaigns.\u00a0 North Korea knows that if there is a war, the pattern will be repeated, only with even more destructive results.\u00a0 North Korea reportedly has close to 1 million active troops with another 5.5 million in reserve.\u00a0 They could do a lot of damage, but when Kim Jong Un says only a nuclear weapon will enable North Korea to defend itself against a super power like the United States, he actually has a point.<\/p>\n

We also have a bad habit of changing our mind.\u00a0 For example Qaddafy was told we would stop trying to remove him from power if he stopped his nuclear arms program and started helping us capture terrorists.\u00a0 He kept his part of the bargain.\u00a0 So did we, while Bush, was President.\u00a0 Barack Obama changed his mind.\u00a0 NATO bombed Libya into submission. Qaddafy was killed and Hillary Clinton gloated saying: \u201cWe came, we saw, he died.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> Qaddafy is gone but Libya, by all accounts, is a total mess. Many people argue that removing Saddam Hussein was also a huge mistake, but at least Saddam Hussein was considered a threat to us.\u00a0 No one even argues that Qaddafy was a threat to the U.S.\u00a0 He just paid a terrible price for trusting us.<\/p>\n

While we would be insane to trust Kim Jong Un, one could argue that he would be equally insane to trust us.\u00a0 Perhaps we can put him in a position where we can make him an offer he can\u2019t afford to turn down.\u00a0 So far that hasn\u2019t come close to working.\u00a0 Every day there is a delay we are one day closer to the point of no return.\u00a0 If we wait until he is capable of hitting us with a nuclear weapon, we will have waited too long.<\/p>\n

A lot of people are forgetting something very important.\u00a0 Donald Trump is President of the United States and he has a duty to defend us.\u00a0 When you undermine his credibility, particularly to our enemies, you put us all at risk.\u00a0 They used to say that politics stopped at our borders.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that is far from true today.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if Donald Trump or anyone else can fix this.\u00a0 I do know that if the main stream media continues their daily attempts to discredit him it will be increasingly difficult to even imagine a good outcome. If Kim Jong Un believes the main stream media reports that Trump is a liar who cannot be trusted, then the situation moves from hopeless to beyond hopeless.\u00a0 If that happens the only predictable outcome is that the main stream media will blame everything on Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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