Posted on 04/22/2017 4:43:45 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Lindsey Graham outdoes himself in warmongering with a new call for attacking North Korea:
“Would you be for a preemptive strike?” Today Show host Willie Geist asked the South Carolina Republican. “If that’s what it would take,” Graham replied resolutely.
“It would be terrible but the war would be over here (there), wouldn’t be here,” Graham continued. “It would be bad for the Korean Peninsula. It would be bad for China. It would be bad for Japan, be bad for South Korea. It would be the end of North Korea. But what it would not do is hit America [bold mine-DL] and the only way it could ever come to America is with a missile.”
Graham routinely supports the most irresponsible, dangerous, and immoral policies, so it is not surprising that he is in favor of doing this. The striking thing about his answer is how cavalier he is about calling for starting a war that he admits would be disastrous for everyone in the region. Leave aside that he completely forgets about the tens of thousands of Americans stationed in South Korea that would come under immediate attack in retaliation for the so-called “preemptive strike” he wants. Note that the action he’s talking about wouldn’t actually be “preemptive,” but would be an unprovoked attack and the start of a major war. Leave it to Graham to find a way to find a North Korea policy so horrible that it puts the U.S. in the wrong.
The senator casually contemplates a course of action that would likely lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and destabilize the region for years to come and he shrugs it off by saying the war “wouldn’t be here.” It doesn’t shock me that a professional warmonger doesn’t care about the effects of this preferred policies, but it is a bit of a surprise that he is so open about his callous disregard for the lives of civilians and soldiers in South Korea and Japan who would pay the price for the act of aggression he supports. The next time you hear Graham feign concern for lives lost in some foreign conflict or pretend to be on the side of our allies, remember this answer and realize that his only desire is to get the U.S. into more unnecessary wars regardless of the consequences.
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?
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?
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.
Kim’s a short timer....his military is starving
It’s been starving for a couple of decades....but it is still there.
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.
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.
McCain and Graham, two nuts in a pod.
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.
Does Graham not have any Korean friends?
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...
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.
Graham is deranged.
Graham’s cavalier disregard for nuclear war indicates a politically disqualifying degree of mental instability.
OUr very own Sissy Strangelove.
The Russians are moving tanks to their border with North Korea...in order to support the NORKS
I presume McInsane preapproved his remarks. Shame, South Carolina, shame on y’all.
He has “Precious bodily fluids” to contribute.
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.
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