Don DeBar, a commentator and radio host based in New York, made the comments after a poll showed more than a third of Americans would support a preemptive nuclear strike on North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...if the country tested a long-range missile capable of reaching the United States.
The survey of 3,000 Americans published this month in the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences found that over a third of Americans supported a preventive US military attack against Pyongyang if the North resumed testing long-range, nuclear-capable missiles that could reach the United States.
The respondents said they would even support a nuclear-first strike on the North "regardless of the civilian casualties such an attack would produce."
"The American people are so thoroughly propagandized and so badly educated in matters of global importance," DeBar told Press TV in a phone interview on Sunday. "Just about anything can be sold to them and generally the only product, intellectual product, being sold to them is war."
"It is so mostly beyond their conception that it is possible for the US government to take on any large enterprise under the military action," he noted. "If this weren’t the case, then they would raise questions all the time about why don’t we healthcare, why don’t we have a national housing policy, why don’t we have better schools, etc."
Debar further said that the Americans believed the only thing the US government was competent to do was military action.
The poll also showed that the respondents were overly optimistic that the US military could destroy all of North Korea’s nuclear weapons.