“…However, another intervention in Latin America [30] is likely to create a nationalist backlash. For the last fifteen years Afghanistan [2] has endured a persistently unsuccessful American intervention and the insertion of additional forces is lacking in a sovereign domestic ally or strategy for exit. The litany is endless, South and North Korea, will bear the cost in the event of an American attack on Kim Jong-un's regime; it appears immaterial the South Korean government has tended to support a more measured strategy and a diplomatic solution to the crisis.…”