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Graham’s Deranged Idea for Attacking North Korea
The American Conservative ^ | 4-20-2017 | Daniel Larison

Posted on 04/22/2017 4:43:45 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo

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Graham's despicable disregard for the lives of foreign civilians is as self-defeating as it is immoral. In the long run, such a reckless action would invite the kind of dangers that Graham says he wants to prevent. Nothing is more destabalizing than the world's most powerful nation striving for an unattainable absolute security by preemptive war. In such a world, other nations have a strong incentive to secure their survival by preempting the preemptor.
1 posted on 04/22/2017 4:43:48 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

If graham is for it, there must be a lot of insider trading right now. Congressional exemptocrats cannot go to prison for Martha Stewart’s crime. I wonder if they exempted other branches, like the judicial and executive?


2 posted on 04/22/2017 4:50:07 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Gas attacks. Substitute Sadam for Assad and Iraq for Syria? How many American lives do you commit)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

As much as I despise Graham, in this case he might be right. Can we really let Kim and Co. have the ability to deliver nuclear warheads onto American cities? Is hundreds of thousands of dead Koreans worse than millions of dead Americans?


3 posted on 04/22/2017 4:55:52 AM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

He was on the Today Show without his bu++ boy McCain? No wonder he said all the wrong things, he was suffering from separation anxiety.


4 posted on 04/22/2017 4:58:39 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Hugin

Kim’s a short timer....his military is starving


5 posted on 04/22/2017 5:00:23 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

It’s been starving for a couple of decades....but it is still there.


6 posted on 04/22/2017 5:09:30 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Hugin
it is a horrible option.

BUT

We CAN NOT remove it from our list of options!

In that sense here, I disagree with the Kangaroo. If the DPRK is proceeding to a state where they commit nuclear blackmail against the USA, and we know that will be the outcome, then what are our options and why would we rule anything out.

7 posted on 04/22/2017 5:17:49 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I did NOT elect liberal Democrats IVANKA and JARED to ANYTHING! (I doubt you did, too.))
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To: Hugin
As much as I despise Graham, in this case he might be right. Can we really let Kim and Co. have the ability to deliver nuclear warheads onto American cities? Is hundreds of thousands of dead Koreans worse than millions of dead Americans?

But what incentive does Kim have to commit suicide by such an attack on the US? For all their supposed irrationality, the Kim family has never crossed that line in 70 years of rule.

8 posted on 04/22/2017 5:21:46 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

McCain and Graham, two nuts in a pod.


9 posted on 04/22/2017 5:30:58 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

All Kim is doing is “posturing” to get another influx of food, goods and funds to keep regime collapse from starvation from happening. His nuclear program if it ever actually achieves fission is just another aspect of that.
The West plus China will have the dilemma of allowing unprecedented starvation to occur in the North (with the accompanying instability!), we or the Chinese end the regime & get a short but unbelievably bloody war on the peninsula (with most of the blood Korean blood!), continue to buy him off. It will be the third option unless somebody miscalculates.


10 posted on 04/22/2017 5:33:48 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Does Graham not have any Korean friends?


11 posted on 04/22/2017 5:36:47 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Parroting fake news is highly profitable for some.)
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Graham might have had Korean friends BEFORE making his statement, but not after. Sadly, his callousness poisons the US brand overall, and makes it harder for the US to work with our Asian allies. Perhaps that was his intention...


12 posted on 04/22/2017 5:54:44 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: Hugin

Can we really let Kim and Co. have the ability to deliver nuclear warheads onto American cities?

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Through containerized freight, I think he may have that ability already.


13 posted on 04/22/2017 6:04:03 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Irredeemable Deplorable Texan)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Graham is deranged.


14 posted on 04/22/2017 6:06:59 AM PDT by mulligan
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Graham’s cavalier disregard for nuclear war indicates a politically disqualifying degree of mental instability.


15 posted on 04/22/2017 6:20:11 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

OUr very own Sissy Strangelove.


16 posted on 04/22/2017 6:21:15 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

The Russians are moving tanks to their border with North Korea...in order to support the NORKS


17 posted on 04/22/2017 6:23:04 AM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

I presume McInsane preapproved his remarks. Shame, South Carolina, shame on y’all.


18 posted on 04/22/2017 6:24:13 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning)
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To: Tallguy

He has “Precious bodily fluids” to contribute.


19 posted on 04/22/2017 6:25:01 AM PDT by batterycommander (I learned my Artillery skills from the United States Marines. USNA 65)
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To: Colonel Kangaroo

Never crossed the line?

Attempted assassination of SK President Park?
The deliberate sinking of SK naval vessel?
Artillery strikes against SK territory (offshore island)?
Attacks on SK fishing boats?
The killings of American Soldiers patrolling the DMZ unarmed?
Pueblo Incident?

Look, I’m not sure that we have any alternatives at this point. But I’m just pointing out where NK has cynically crossed the line on numerous occasions.


20 posted on 04/22/2017 6:48:39 AM PDT by Tallguy
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