Questions
30. If elected, what will you seek to achieve in Iran and North Korea, and how?
Smarting from
the Israeli air force's destruction of Saddam Hussein's nuclear facilities in 1981,
Iran has
dispersed its nuclear facilities and dug them deep enough underground to
withstand conventional missile attacks or aerial bombardment.
One way to destroy them is to use nuclear warheads, whose radiation would kill
our allies in the region and Europe, and is therefore not a viable option.
Another way to destroy them is via ground invasion. Since our armed
forces are already stretched thin in Iraq and Afghanistan, this would require reintroducing the draft to raise an army, for which
America is in no mood.
A third way would have been to leverage Saddam Hussein's secular Iraq to
militarily keep Iran's radical Islam in check as we did in the 1980s, but we
eliminated that option on our own.
Geopolitically, there are no other options. Iran knows it. We know it. And Iran
knows that we know it.
With respect to North Korea, led by a shrewd and ruthless dictator parading as a
buffoon, its willingness to negotiate its nuclear program is increasing
as the dictator ages without a viable successor. But negotiations with North
Korea should also address Kim Jong-il's penchant for
torturing and killing Christians in
chemical warfare experiments.
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