Iraq wasn't really any different, and probably worse. Executions, disappearances, mass graves. The systematic rape and murder of it's people was day-to-day SOP. Still, it's not exactly like the locals rose up to help liberate themselves, and that was with an actual army there to support them. With Saddam removed and constant support in the years since, Iraq is
still a mess and is under constant threat of becoming a terrorist pawn like we see in many places in Africa, and that is with direct interference geared solely to prevent the type of power vacuum that those organizations will regularly exploit. Honestly, what is the argument for (nuclear) North Korea going more smoothly with less direct aid and support?
Communism became a part of Korea in the '20s and a great many of their communist leaders haven't had the last name Kim (well... family name, as they put it first there, and of course a lot of them
have been "Kims" but unrelated since the name Kim, like Park, is about as common as you can get... but you know what I mean :dunno
. While the
current problem is a family, North Korea's government has always seemed to be a corrupt shit hole from stem to stern. Creating a power vacuum at top doesn't change that. In order to effect real positive change there needs to be something
better to fill the power vacuum. I don't see North Korea having anything that qualifies even if you route the entire Kim line. And let's say we do that. Let's say we murder every one of them to the last. And we take out the rest of the government too. We lay waste to the building blocks of North Korean society and leave the place in chaos... with nuclear weapons. How long before some North Korean finds himself a bit richer and some of those weapons end up in, say, the hands of Al-Qaeda or Iran (and if
that happens, how long is it going to be before we're scratching "Israel" off of maps and replacing it with "Smoldering Hole"?)?
Un is a bastard. No doubt. He's also a murderer and probably insane (definitely
power mad at the least). As long as he's managed though I don't particularly fear him. He's evil, but so far he's
stable. An empty throne there, however... that notion makes me feel much more nervous than optimistic. I can't see the idea of trying to violently remove him as anything but rolling the dice, with the odds stacked against us, and thermonuclear weapons tossed haphazardly into the kitty. That's not an idea that's going to help me sleep at night...
