In this New Cuban Missile Crisis, Are We Already in Checkmate?

Townhall.com ^ | May 6, 2017 | Larry Kelly

[bk1000]

I don’t believe it. They said the oceans would be dried up by now too.

[stockpirate]

Let us not forget that Democrats creayed this mess by giving NK a nuke power plant

[WildHighlander57]

No mention of that nork satellite.

[CondorFlight]

We should have acted a dozen years ago. Better for us, and better for the North Korean people, too.

But everyone kicked the can down the road. Now we’re almost at the end of that road.

Easiest way out —regime change in NK.

[Kaslin]

They sure did. (William Jefferson Clinton)

[gaijin]

Later

[ealgeone]

A look at history shows we LOST the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[b4its2late]

Good ole slick Willy still haunting us with his decisions. And that’s a prelude to what Bush and Obama administrations did which will haunt us. Bush identified the axis of evil but didn’t attack the two most evil spokes first. He had to payback saddam for his daddy first. Mistakes.

[gaijin]

Bill Clinton at DMZ peering through binoculars with lens caps still on

[Morpheus2009]

We also had a major standoff in 1983 called Able Archer. The threat was worse then since the Soviets had ICBMs capable of hitting anywhere on Earth from a launch inside Soviet continental territory, as well as mobile launch platforms. They almost pulled the trigger.

[The_Media_never_lie]

But what are we going to do? Wait until they have enough (nuclear weaponized missiles) to make preemption impossible?

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Yes, that is what we are going to do.

[bert]

The Problem is not missiles and warheads, the problem is Kim.

Kim is or seems to be irrational with delusions of grandeur. Kim, the man must be eliminated. A dead Kim will yield lots of change in north Korea. Kim must die

[Sasparilla]

An ICBM wouldn’t be needed. A missile launched from a freighter or submarine off the coast could deliver a nuke at the right altitude.
So could a jet airliner or a cargo plane on a one way trip to 50-60,000 feet.

[Codeflier]

I still suspect EMP damage potential is exaggerated. Maybe one day we will find out though.

[vooch]

agreed - these chuck hawks are always wrong

[ealgeone]

Wasn’t that in reaction to one of our training exercises?

[wastedyears]

If they do successfully hit anything, well.. there won’t be much of Nork territory left to look at after that. I bet Trump would press the red button.

[jmaroneps37]

Yes we are all DOOMED DOOMED I tell you! Oh why didn’t we listen and elect the felon? What will we ever do now?

[DaveA37]

“A dead Kim will yield lots of change in north Korea. Kim must die”.....

Trump told us he would create jobs so there you go, who would like to submit an application? We’re hiring!