Quote from peilthetraveler:
Say you have a neighbor who is a good friend of yours. One day some crazy man with a gun walks into his house and shoots one of his kids. Do you say...Oh let that crazy guy and my friend duke it out all they want....just dont let any stray bullets head in the direction of my house, or do you, who has a bulletproof jacket & an M16 sitting in his garage go help your neighbor before the crazy guy wiped out his whole family?
(Oh...just to make it the same as real life, this crazy guy has threatened your family before)
So what do you do now? Because thats the situation we are in right now.
Had the crazy guy already threatened my family before he'd already be dead, and so would all of his supporters just to drive the point home. Problem solved! North Korea would have been defeated in the 50's under my plan.