Seriesly. Nobody truly believes North Korea will fire a missile upon Hawaii.
Right?
I know, I know, I know. Nobody truly believed Hitler would invade Poland or Japan would bomb Pearl Harbor but, c'mon, those countries actually had war-making capabilities.
Kim Jung Mentally-Il has no such capabilities. He has one bullet. Ubama would HAVE to respond overwhelmingly.
Right?
Anybody with me?
Wanna bet your life on that presumption? Personally, I believe that the First Thug was celebrating in kindred spirit with the Palestinian Animals on 09.11.2001.
Therefore, he has no interest in defending America; he's more interested in becoming King of the World. Remember, he flubbed his Oath Of Office back on 1/20/09.
I think the greater question is.. what would happen to a president, that knew of a clear and present danger, not doing everything he could to protect this country?
Maybe, at least part way. The Norks are showmen, albeit as low grade street theater. A lot of this stuff they're doing is just chest thumping to get more “treats” from those that can be shaken down. Well, it worked in the past with the Clinton/Albright circus. Why not with the Obama/Clinton rerun?
They don't have to actually drop a nuke on HI. All they have to do is get one of their missiles to hold together long enough, and put the warhead (probably concrete ballast) into the general vicinity of the islands. It's all just a demonstration anyway. If they can pop an underground nuke (even if it's a “lab device” that couldn't be launched), at about the same time they deliver an inert warhead into the region they've got a bit more street cred than they had before
The US will quite likely cough up some fuel and food to buy them off for a bit longer, and it'll probably work....for a while.
I'm just telling you what I think is going to happen. Personally, my opinion is that it's best to ignore them entirely so that there's no reinforcement of their sociopathic behavior. If they actually did load a nuke on the missile, and really got close enough to do some damage (wouldn't be much given their low yields), the nuclear response would knock them back further than the primitive state they exist in now. Do you suppose anyone over there would notice?
Nobody thought 9/11 would happen. As long as our enemies believe the we have a weak leader and with dems in power, they’ll be emboldened. Once NK has the capability to hit Hawaii, they will.
He is dying. He would desperately love to be remembered in the history books for doing something important. He is a murdering despot. What more could a murdering despot want than to be remembered for murdering millions in a nuclear war? The only thing saving Hawaii is the fact that he doesn't have the technology to nuke it, not that he wouldn't if he could.
Conventional wisdom was that the Japanese were little four eyed dwarfs with no technology. Yea good again defenseless Chinese peasants, but not US. Well that turned out to be wrong.
That said, Lil Kim has not yet *demonstrated* that he has something that can reach Hawaii. Best estimates, which could be way off, are that the basic design of his missile isn't quite good enough to reach Hawaii, but that it could reach Alaska with ease. It could also reach Midway atoll.
If I was Kimbo and wanted to tweak the nose of the running Yellow Dog capitalists (Capitalists? We seem to be running short of those, but I guess Kim hasn't got the word on that yet.), I would try to drop my dummy warhead into the lagoon at Midway.
If, OTOH, I was serious about doing real damage, Anchorage would be the target.
You're joking, right? You're thinking far too rationally. Both Kim & BO are mentally deficient; obviously, they're both are megalomaniacs. For a guy in Kim's situation, a cornered animal with nothing to lose, it can lead to him doing something truly stupid; and to BO (one nut-case to another) Kim seems pretty normal...just misunderstood. That is precisely why this is a dangerous situation.