A view of a parade celebrating the 105th birth anniversary of founder Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, North Korea April 15, 2017 in this photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on April 16, 2017. (Reuters)
George Perkovich, National Interest: If America Topples North Korea and Iran, What Happens Next?
Just say no to regime change. It hasn't worked in the past and it won't now.
On October 19, National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster declared that President Donald Trump was not going to accept the North Korean regime threatening the United States with a nuclear weapon. “He just won’t accept it,” McMaster reported. “There are those who have said, ‘What about accept and deter?’ Well, accept and deter is unacceptable.” McMaster was speaking at a conference organized by the Foundation for the Defense for Democracies—a small but influential Washington think tank. Its leaders advocated the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and now provide intellectual fuel for McMaster, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and others, such as the Wall Street Journal editorial board, which called for “The Regime Change Solution in Korea.”
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WNU Editor: If you break it ... you own it. And at this moment in time there is fortunately no appetite in the U.S. public to wage war against North Korea and Iran with the goal of regime change .... and there is certainly no desire to be responsible for cleaning it all up when the bombs have stopped dropping. But in the event that regime change is pursued .... and it is successful .... unless the U.S. is willing to commit hundreds of thousands of soldiers and trillions of dollars for a long term occupation .... nothing is good is going to come out of this.