Michael Goldfarb doesn’t get that talking about striking North Korea’s nuclear sites is not exactly what any person would call productive strategy to be hawking on the Sunday shows.
Yglesias makes another interesting point.
Brit Hume chimes in that he’s all for it too, but that Obama likely won’t do it.
This is the kind of back and forth that belongs in Monty Python Flying Circus.
SecDef Gates is more circumspect. But then again he’s not a Fox News channel talking head. He’s also dealt with managing the challenge, something that Kristol and Hume aren’t interested in doing, because their basic strategy on all things foreign policy is shoot, then aim.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates raised the idea of a tougher approach toward North Korea’s recent nuclear test in meetings here with Asian allies on Saturday, including the prospect of building up United States military forces in the region should six-nation diplomatic talks with North Korea fail, American defense officials said. … But another defense official cautioned that talk of any military buildup was premature and that it was merely a “prudent option” in terms of “what should we be thinking about in the event that we need to start enhancing our posture, our defenses?”
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