Posted on 12/30/2016 8:11:46 AM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Three days before Christmas, President-elect Trump tweeted (yes, tweeted) that the U.S. “must greatly strengthen and enhance its nuclear capability” until the world “comes to its senses regarding nukes.” The world, for its part, blinked in astonishment, wondering once again what Mr. Trump might mean, and why such a momentous announcement appeared via social media. Prior presidents generally undertook any shift in nuclear policy with care, and with the advice of experts in arms control and proliferation who have made keeping us safe their life’s mission. After all, when a single person has the power to rain down nuclear fire across the world, caution might not only be warranted, but expected. Trump’s language seemed to imply a new arms race. So if the tweet, like many of his brazen acts, was meant to shock and unbalance others, it worked. Surely Trump couldn’t be calling for a renewed emphasis on these weapons, not after so many decades of effort to de-escalate and disarm, and surely not via Twitter? But Trump soon doubled down on his nuclear gambit in a follow-up interview: “Let it be an arms race,” he told MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. And with that, the future became quite unclear—and many times more dangerous.
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Apologies for the retarded posting...my bad. Off Day!
Thank God for the atom bomb, or all of Japan would have committed suicide fighting for their God the Emperor...
Well, they shouldn’t have bombed Pearl Harbor.
Don’t bother the bull if you don’t want the horns.
He should write a book: “How to milk a bit part in a 60s TV series into a lifelong career”
Don’t do Pearl Harbors and we won’t do Hiroshimas, George.
George, even if your claim is true, your bleats about the horrors endured by your “family” pale in comparison to the horrors, abuse and murder your erstwhile country perpetrated on humanity. Shame on you.
And YOU were put in a concentration camp by DEMOCRATS you schmuck. Just because you are gay doesn’t mean the Democrats are your friends. They knowingly take money from countries that throw gays like you off of roof tops. You are just a stupid old liberal ash hole.
I lost family in WWII also, Georgie. Pearl Harbor was a stupid idea. Shut up and “move on”.
Yeah, and I lost family at Pearl Harbor, sh**head.
Oh, and ask the Chinese about some assorted treatment from the Japanese also.
LOL!
A lot more Japanese civilians, as well as Japanese and Allied soldiers, would have died in an invasion of the Japanese home islands.
Sulu, you lost family in Hiroshima and the US lost half a million vets because of Japan d-bag.
George, you idiot, your Japanese relatives could also have been killed with a plain old 2000 pound HE bomb. The Japs started that war. It is entirely their own fault.
This stupid dick weed was also imprisoned with his family by FDR and he is just so happy to be siding with the same party that took everything away from them. I heard an interview with him where he recounted the three different detention camps his family lived in during the war.
Just another stupid faggot who is doing all of his thinking with the little head.
Limiting our ability to punish those who deserve punishing makes our world more dangerous, not less dangerous.
Throughout history, it is unequivocal- Strength is Peace.
So he’s actually making a strong argument that we waited too long.
George — you lost family in Hiroshima because Japan was governed by a fascist, racist, imperialistic and aggressively expansionist government at the time. A government that was so brutal to the people it subjugated and POWs that the US did not want to risk a ground war in Japan for fear of millions of casualties. A government that did not surrender even though everyone knew they were going to lose the war. That is why your family died.
This fudge packer needs to be saying this to his pal Barry.
21 days left and he is fiddling as fast as he can!
Tough talk from a guy that whacked Klingons with photon torpedoes.
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