War and Mongers of War 0
Josh Marshall considers the news from Asia (emphasis added):
He goes on to consider the logic of a “preemptive” strike against North Korea and concludes that, in this case at least, there is no such thing.
It resolves to a simple point: the logic of a “preemptive strike” is that you can solve or mostly solve the problem at issue by striking hard and first. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. So a “preemptive strike” really just means starting a war, which we couldn’t necessarily control in scope or duration once we started it.
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