In an article I read this morning, North Korea suggests that it can strike the Unites States first. What North Korea is suggesting, is that it holds just as much pre-emptive authority to strike a nation, as the U.S. does. How did this happen? How is it that another nation now looks to pre-emptive action as a viable political tool? The answer is simple really, when one of the worlds most leading nations indicates acceptable foreign policy through it’s actions, the world will take note. North Korea has been paying attention to how the U.S. has been metering out it’s foreign policy as of late.
I don’t want to sound as though I don’t support our administration, or support our military forces overseas, because I do; however, I do think we may have made a mistake and as the years pass by, we are beginning to see the fallout of our actions in Iraq. Our doctrine of self-defense changed when it was decided the U.S. would pre-emptively strike Iraq. No longer was it a doctrine of striking back, it was a doctrine of striking first. Instead of turning the other cheek, or taking an eye for an eye, we are now the ones to poke the other in the eye first.
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