Who Ordered Two U.S. Destroyers Deployed Against North Korea?

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Cheng S. Yang/Released

Who Exactly Ordered Those Destroyers Against Korea? -- E-Ring/Foreign Policy

So, it’s the Navy’s fault that the U.S.-North Korea spat has gone so far?

That’s the apparent message from senior administration officials who, according to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, said that they had long planned to send B-52s, B-2 stealth bombers, and F-22 fighters to the Korean Peninsula as part of preplanned wargames with South Korea, but that they had not planned the recent deployment of Navy destroyers.

Last weekend, the U.S. ordered two guided-missile destroyers to the Western Pacific -- the U.S.S. John S. McCain and the U.S.S. Decatur -- to provide additional defense against North Korean ballistic missiles. That move represents an operational escalation of U.S. forces in the region, in contrast to the symbolic show of force provided by the fighters and bombers, which conducted only flyby passes and bombing practice (or, in the case of the F-22, just sat on the ground).

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My Comment: Talk about sending out the wrong message .... at a time when leadership is needed from the White House .... we have finger pointing instead. The White House is clearly nervous, and if I can see that, I expect our allies and the North Korean leadership to see it also.