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Neo-neocon is one of my favorite bloggers, always interesting. Today she starts with this:

North Korea is a country formed by a war that never ended.

Pacifists are fond of saying that war never solves anything. I beg to differ — war, for example, solved the problem of Adolf Hitler and German expansionist aggressiveness, although at great cost.

But that war was fought to the bitter end, unlike many subsequent ones. Revulsion at war — which I share, by the way, although my critics won’t credit that — has led to a series of unfinished, prematurely truncated wars. And like most unfinished business, there’s a tendency for these conflicts to come back to bite us.

Read the whole thing.

War can be the least awful of the alternatives available. Looking at the current situation in North Korea, one can’t help but think it would have been better to have finished the job back fifty years ago…