[Beowulf9]

[Nextrush]

Its easy to play blame the previous presidents, so I’ll join in to.

Donald Trump praised Douglas MacArthur last year and it was Harry Truman who fired MacArthur back in 1951 for wanting to win the Korean War.

“In war there is no substitute for victory”, MacArthur told Congress when he returned home back then.

Dwight Eisenhower opted for ‘brinksmanship’ using the threat of nuclear weapons to force the Communist side (China, North Korea) to sign a cease-fire at a negotiating table.

The North Koreans ‘learned’ from that experience and like all Communists took the long view, never gave up and continued nasty hit and run attacks including assassinations, terror bombings etc. in the decades since while they developed nuclear weapons.

And now they threaten in hopes of cutting deals at negotiating tables like they did with Bill Clinton back in the 1990’s.

And Commies have a habit of not keeping any deals they sign at negotiating tables.

Lets hope everyone understands that since I hear the offer of negotiations is on the table on this moment.

[ZULU]

Don’t absolve the two Bush dolts. Or Obama.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Tom Clancy articulated, with rather unsettling detail in his novel The Sum of All Fears, how a standard atomic warhead could be converted into a thermonuclear weapon with fairly minimum difficulty by someone with enough resources, technical background and daring. In the book the weapon malfunctions but still wipes out most of Denver. Clancy used the afterward to note how the materials, the engineering data and the simulation software were within reach of just about any rogue agency.

This book was published in 1991. Plenty of time since then for said rogue agencies to have achieved finesse toward their goals.

[originalbuckeye]

Carter’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 is when I realized that even the Nobel Awards were political. He won for brokering the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with the Norks. Two weeks later we found out they hadn’t stopped developing their weapons. He didn’t return the Prize.

[jmacusa]

*Ooff, puff, grunt, scribble, scribble***) Boy It’s tough being the number one guy in a murderous police state. All these papers and junk I gotta sign. And all those parades I gotta go to where everybody tells me how much they love me ‘n’ blowing up my enemies with anti-aircraft artillery ‘n’ mortar fire. Yeah, it ain’t easy. Hey, I’ll call my home boy Denis Rodman..!

[sport]

Both of these were the people’s choice. Both of these were re-elected by the people that knew full well what bastards, traitors, and haters of America they were. I would opine that the people got what they voted for and wanted both times.