Are we headed for a war on the Korean Peninsula, one that would be far more deadly and destructive than the 1950-1953 Korean War?

If you were watching the news over the past several weeks, you could easily come to that dire conclusion without much effort. The back-and-forth rhetoric between U.S. and North Korean officials has escalated to such a level that commentators are now openly speculating that the U.S. military is preparing for an operation similar to the attack on a Syrian government airfield earlier this month.