Passchendaele and Pyongyang

• Mike Smith
• 7 years ago
• Categories: us politics, war

The massive artillery barrage at Passchendaele was supposed to cut the German wire and make advance easy. All it did was churn up the mud though which so many doomed New Zealanders slogged and died. A monument to military incompetence and political disaster. These days they prefer bombs, which are equally deadly and equally futile.

Its time we said no more.

Driven back to the 38th parallel by the Chinese, American bombers flattened Pyongyang (and every other city in North Korea as well as its infrastructure) in 1953 with high explosives and incendiaries. It didn’t defeat them; all it has done is drive a resurgent North Korea to dig underground and seek nuclear weapons as a deterrent, just like the other nuclear states. We we now have a grandiose narcissist in Donald Trump sheltering behind his generals wives and threatening to bomb them all over again.

Its time we said no more.