It is not an American ideal to attack another country that scares us.

It is sick and immoral to use South Korea as a human shield gambling N. Korea will not fight back when bombed.

We should have learned via Iraq that going to war without being attacked is unwise, even stupid.  The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over, even if only twice, and expect a different result.  The lessons of America's preemptive attack of Iraq destabilized all of the Middle East.  America's meddling continues to further destabilize that region and can lead to the end of our planet if we continue to fuck with the Middle East.

"An estimated $88.2 billion dollars needed to restore Iraq after long wars
Associated Press         February 12, 2018          in WORLD

https://globaldefensenews.com/estimated-88-2-billion-dollars-needed-restore-iraq-long-wars/

"KUWAIT CITY (AP) — Kuwait on Monday opened a week of conferences seeking aid for rebuilding Iraq after the onslaught of the Islamic State group, seeking tens of billions of dollars for a nation only a generation ago that invaded it.

Authorities estimate Iraq needs $88.2 billion to restore a country smashed after the Sunni extremists seized the country’s second-largest city of Mosul and a mass of territory in June 2014.

 
“We finished one battle but we are engaged now with a war for reconstruction,” said Mustafa al-Hiti, the head of Iraq’s reconstruction fund for areas affected by terrorist operations."

So, Mr Luttwak, can you write the "check" to rebuild North Korea and South Korea, and pay for lives lost after YOUR BOMBING IS DONE?  Send your family t war, sir, and stop advising Governments to commit war crimes.

You are a mad man Mr. Luttwak.  Mr. Luttwak is insane.

"Edward Luttwak"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Luttwak

"Luttwak was born into a Jewish family in Arad, Romania, and raised in Italy and England.[1] After elementary school in Palermo, Sicily, he attended Carmel College and Quintin Grammar in England, where he also received basic training in the British Army, and then the London School of Economics where he graduated in analytical economics in 1964.

After working for the British, French, and Israeli militaries, he moved to the United States in 1972 for graduate studies at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his doctorate in 1975. He had held an academic post at the University of Bath before moving to United States where he taught at John Hopkins and Georgetown University."

Korea

"Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest."
By Edward Luttwak          January 8, 2018

http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/08/its-time-to-bomb-north-korea/

Is North Korea the only country with nuclear weapons that threaten or might threaten the United States?  I think Iran is a good target, and maybe Russia, and China . . .  Let's go to war with them all!  Oh, these others, excluding Iran, might be able to fight back.  So let's go kill the little guy?

"For now, it seems clear that U.S. military authorities have foreclosed a pre-emptive military option. But the United States could still spare the world the vast dangers of a North Korea with nuclear-armed long-range missiles if it acts in the remaining months before they become operational.

It’s true that India, Israel, and Pakistan all have those weapons, with no catastrophic consequences so far. But each has proven its reliability in ways that North Korea has not. Their embassies, for instance, don’t sell hard drugs or traffic in forged banknotes. More pertinently, those other countries have gone through severe crises, and even fought wars, without ever mentioning nuclear weapons, let alone threatening their use as Kim Jong Un already has. North Korea is different, and U.S. policy should recognize that reality before it is too late."

Luttwak's conclusion is breathlessly stupid and self-serving.  When America fears any nation is the solution to attack as soon as possible?  If America fears what is "different" in any country, it is a threat to our national pride, so it suits the US agenda to colonize the world by gun?  Is any country safe from America's endless appetite for war?  We seem to not care who we kill or what we destroy