Because we are the self appointed global police now. Just watch this 30 second Navy commercial on how we are a "GLOBAL" force for good and not just an "American" force anymore. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/q_HZtTOyihg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/q_HZtTOyihg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
Lets make it a little more simple. Suppose I see you swimming in the water. I shoot you. They drag your body out of the water and see the bullet still lodged inside you. Its the same thing but with a torpedo for the bullet and a ship for the body. Some of the shrapnel sank, some got stuck in the ship.
Fine. You convinced me. War is the only solution and it must commence with immediate effect. Enlist now and put your money where your mouth is. Or are you a hero only when it comes to the spilling of blood other than your own?
oooooooooh, ooooooooooooh ... North Korea their ideology, like yours is a quick death. No intervention required (now, .... I could explain the difference between a suitcase bomb and a nutjob who rules a million man army, (who are, by all accounts malnourished to the point of near death), with aims of near-orbit munitions, but really, why the hell would I?
You should see the Arirang Mass games, they actually use people and colored boards to make the big displays, they flip the colors. Pretty amazing I doubt we have anything close to it. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PNDAFegkdkA&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PNDAFegkdkA&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>
No, appeasement does not work, never has, never will. What should happen is that we should stay out of any war that does not involve us, but we are an ally of SK. But we all know this is not about NK and SK. It is really about what China might do if we crush NK. They have actual and fiscal nukes against us. All China would have to do is dump our debt into the open market, and we might win the NK battle, but the global war would be very much over.
China will not let it get to the point of US "crushing" NK. Remember, early 1950s ? Don't think they will sit idly by while an invasion occurs on their border ally. An attack on NK will be the big one.
In the unlikely event NK used nukes, yes, we would have an obligation to respond. I have grave doubts our current president would do so however, and so do the North Koreans, which illustrates the danger of having a weak president. My real problem is with the concept of having a large contingent of US troops in SK as a tripwire. There is a limit to what we can accomplish. I don't see the need for us to defend europe from a non-existent soviet threat, and I don't see the need to protect a large, rich country like SK. At one point, 50 so years ago, maybe the policy made sense. it doesn't any more.