Lindsey Graham: War with North Korea would be ‘worth it’ in the long run – By Avery Anapol (thehill.com) / March 2 2018
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) this week said that a war with North Korea would be “worth it” in the long term.
Graham made the comments in an interview with CNN.
“All the damage that would come from a war would be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security,” the senator told CNN.
Graham’s remark comes amid reports that the U.S. is prepared for the possibility of a military strike against North Korea.
Korean leaders are pushing diplomacy in the troubled region in the weeks following the Winter Olympics. South Korea’s president told President Trump in a phone call earlier this week that he is planning to send a special envoy to Pyongyang.
Graham has in the past repeated a warning that the U.S. is “headed toward a war” with North Korea and praised Trump’s “fire and fury” rhetoric against the regime. He praised the Trump administration for drawing a hard line on North Korean aggression and also told CNN that he is “completely convinced” that Trump rejects a containment policy.
“They’ve drawn a red line here and it is to never let North Korea build a nuclear tipped missile to hit America,” he said.
A former national security adviser in the Obama administration on Friday pointed out Graham’s comment on Twitter, writing, “Lindsey Graham has lost his god damn mind.”
