Rumsfeld and North Korea are Right

UPI Analysis: Blitzkrieg 2003 Before the Battle for Baghdad

This has been a campaign for the history books, an example of modern blitzkrieg that will convince every other military on Earth that there is no future in taking on the Americans. As a result, they will have to think in terms of asymmetric warfare, in ways to achieve their political goals by avoiding an all-out military confrontation.

They will look for an equalizer – like nuclear weapons. North Korea's salesmen are going to become very popular. They will look very hard at deniable terrorist surrogates. And they will study carefully the guerilla attacks the Iraqi paramilitary staged against U.S. supply lines to work out how and why it went wrong.

Iraq is a demonstration that puts the world on notice as it appears Rumsfeld wanted. North Korea is right, the only way to possibly stop the US military is to have nuclear weapons and hope that prevents an attack because those are the only weapons that will cause massive casualties to our forces except for a surprise terrorist event.