Over recent years, my "worry bone" has just been completely worn out.
I've been deluged with warnings as well as threats of increased taxes, fines, imprisonment, etc. over Alar, recreational drugs, global warming, first-and-second-hand tobacco smoke, seat belt and child-restraint device usage, bad eating habits, and the benefits of low-flow toilets among a thousand other things.
My worry bone is broken or worn out.
My worry bone is broken or worn out.
Just because alarmists get attention, while the population explosion catastraophe never materialized, and neither will the global warming catastraophe, doesn't mean there is not a rational threat. The proper response is not worry, but support for stoutly facing down those upstart nations (or non-nations) that are arming.
This is not a REAL threat because we are not going to respond to it in a REAL way.
Smoke a cigar in a bar in Santa Fe and get fined and tazered if you refuse to put it out.
Develop a nuclear weapon and test it and the Great Nations of the world will debate it for years while doing nothing.
We'll have to lose a city before we take this as a REAL threat. Until then, M'eh....
Count me in as one who does. This is a critical test for us, because if it not handled decisively, nuclear blackmail or nuclear terrorism will spread all over the world. NK needs to become an example to others.