Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North's missile bases would violate its constitution.  Japan was badly rattled by North Korea's missile tests last week.  Today, Japan is considering whether the nation's Constituition would allow pre-emptive attacks on North Korean missile sites as an act of self-defense.  Japanese officials said they will keep pressing for harsh UN sanctions against North Korea, despite the likelihood of a Chinese veto and criticism from South Korea.

Personally, I am against pre-emptive war.  I do not feel that any country should attack another in order to stop a potential war.  Yes, North Korea is test firing missiles but so are many other countries in the world.  You don't see the U.S. bombing every country in the world that has missile capabilities.

It's not the fact that North Korea has missiles that makes us terrified.  Many other countries have missiles and we aren't afraid of them.  What makes us terrified is we don't know what Kim Jon Il can do with those missiles.

Pre-emptive war is just flat out wrong.  Ask yourself this?  Would it be right to put someone in the electric chair for a murder they planned to do but did not actually commit?  Pre-emptive war is the same thing.  No one knows for sure what another country is actually going to do until they do it.  You cannot just bomb another country and take innocent lives just because they are test firing missiles.  They are not actually making acts of war against anyone.  When they do then that's a different story, but until then lets not jump to conclusions here.  We should put our battle ships with anti-missile technology in stratigic locations so if they do fire upon us we can shoot down their missiles and proceed from there.  I don't feel that it is right to cause a war just to stop another from taking place.  The only thing that changes in doing this is the one who struck first.