Posted on 08/10/2017 11:40:45 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
North Korea’s substantial nuclear arsenal and improving intercontinental ballistic missile capacity pose a growing threat to America’s security. But we need not face an immediate crisis if we play our hand carefully.
Given the bluster emanating from Pyongyang and Bedminster, N.J., Americans can be forgiven for feeling anxious.
Shortly after adoption of new United Nations sanctions last weekend, North Korea threatened retaliation against the United States “thousands of times” over. Those sanctions were especially potent, closing loopholes and cutting off important funding for the North. August is also when the United States and South Korea conduct major joint military exercises, which always set Pyongyang on edge. In August 2015, tensions escalated into cross-border artillery exchanges after two South Korean soldiers were wounded by land mines laid by North Korea. This juxtaposition of tough sanctions and military exercises has predictably heightened North Korea’s threats.
We have long lived with successive Kims’ belligerent and colorful rhetoric — as ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration, I came to expect it whenever we passed resolutions. What is unprecedented and especially dangerous this time is the reaction of President Trump. Unscripted, the president said on Tuesday that if North Korea makes new threats to the United States, “they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” These words risk tipping the Korean Peninsula into war, if the North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, believes them and acts precipitously.
Either Mr. Trump is issuing an empty threat of nuclear war, which will further erode American credibility and deterrence, or he actually intends war next time Mr. Kim behaves provocatively. The first scenario is folly, but a United States decision to start a pre-emptive war on the Korean Peninsula, in the absence of an imminent threat, would be lunacy.
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What an ugly slob of a pig this Rice is. F@#$ her.
Hey Susan, it’s not like you’re a proven liar for the Obama administration.
Oh, wait. it IS. Go jump in a lake.
What do Bush and Clinton’s advisors have to say? Or maybe get Jill Stein or Ron Paul in here to figure this out. Where’s Ralph Nader and Pat Paulsen?
“What is unprecedented and especially dangerous this time is the reaction of President Trump”
No. What is unprecedented is that Obama allowed him to develop ICBM’s capable of hitting US territory.
Read it? It’s extremely likely she didn’t even write it.
“in the absence of an imminent threat”
Is she for real? NK threatened Guam with an “enveloping fire”. In my book that’s a declaration of war.
Miserable Susan
Susan Rice may as well say : “What’s the big deal if North Korea sinks South Korean warships once in a while, assassinates people in overseas airports now and then, blows the legs off a few S Korean soldiers, hatchets a US soldier or two, hacks into computer systems, lobs missiles over Japan, threatens US territories, threatens the US mainland, surrounds its nuclear sites with concentration camps, rents slaves to Russia, abducts Japanese from the seashore to enslave and use to train Nork intelligence, steals food aid to feed its troops while its people are malnourished, sends technicians to Syria to develop nuclear weapons, counterfeits US dollars, joins Iran in developing missiles and nukes, and tortures the occasional American tourist to death? Non-North Korean westernized people are expendable- after all, we can always make more American citizens ...but we can’t make North Korean citizens.”
Maybe if North Korea had an aspirin factory...
Maybe if North Korea had an aspirin factory like Sudan...
Or a stash of gold like Libya...
Or had a province coveted by muslims like Yugoslavia...
John Favreau writes most of the Obamites tripe.
Susan Rice is a dork.
You beat me to half of the thought about Rice being a lunatic. Here’s the other half. She either bought the whole lie about a video causing the murderous attack in Benghazi or she knowingly “colluded” in promoting that lie and helped put an innocent man in jail.
Either way, Susan Rice is a far-left lunatic and should be put into a very padded cell somewhere away from sane people because she is a very existential threat to America’s survival.
Stupidity or treason is no longer tolerated in a sane America.
This problem exists today because Truman prevented MacArthur from doing his job. Always a democrat...
she should be arrested for suborning treason , tried , found guilty and hanged
Drudge is a double dork. Totally flipped his girly wig.
The only reason Americans are feeling “anxious” over this is because this POS and her POS boss put us in this situation.
Susan Rice was very active in the Benghazi lies. Her and Clinton are the ones that got Ambassador Stevens killed. They should BOTH be facing a firing squad.
Responding to that Hitler guy’s aggression in the Sudeten and Poland would be sheer lunacy. He’s just engaging in bluster and bravado. Nothing to worry about.
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