I just looked at the situation from the other side of the coin and now you’ve got me worried.
Suppose a nuclear response was absolutely the right thing to do and, as would likely be the case, we had about 12 minutes to launch it.
“Mr. President, please, you must read all the codes in the proper order and make no mistakes. Can we try it again?”
“Look, man, I need some ice cream right now. And who are you to tell me what to do?”
“Mr. President, please, you must read all the codes in the proper order and make no mistakes. Can we try it again?”
“Look, man, I need some ice cream right now. And who are you to tell me what to do?”
Like Mortimer in “Arsenic and Old Lace” trying to get Teddy to sign the commitment papers.
That is scary- he can’t read the teleprompter, let alone nuclear codes.