This was the scariest part of Trump’s State of the Union[N. Korea]

Vox ^ | Jan 30, 2018 | Zack Beauchamp

[TigerLikesRooster]

This was the scariest part of Trump’s State of the Union

He talked about North Korea the way George W. Bush talked about Iraq.

By Zack Beauchamp

Jan 30, 2018, 10:28pm EST

President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union speech concluded with a powerful story about a North Korean defector who was tortured and starved by that country’s brutal government.

The president described Ji Seong Ho’s suffering in excruciating detail, painting the North Korean government as an enemy of humanity — and of Christianity.

“He woke up as a train ran over his limbs. He then endured multiple amputations without anything to dull the pain,” Trump said. “His tormentors wanted to know if he’d met any Christians. He had — and he resolved, after that, to be free.”

Trump’s recounting of Ji’s suffering served a very specific political purpose — to illustrate the core point of the speech’s discussion of North Korea: A country that mistreats its people so cruelly cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.

“North Korea’s reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland,” Trump said. “We need only look at the depraved character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to America and to our allies.”

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"We now know that this speech was designed to sell the war in Iraq, to paint Saddam Hussein’s government as an intolerable threat to the United States."

Is there any doubt in anyone's mind (leftists included) that the NORKS have nukes and are currently trying to develop missile technology that is capable of delivering a nuclear payload to America?

That's a big difference between Iraq and the NORKS right there, Sadaam was not working on developing missiles to hit America. The fear was him giving his WMDs to terrorists. There is a true existential threat to America from the NORKs and it's coming to a head. I don't advocate going to war with the NORKS because of the terrible fallout from it, but we can't continue down the current path we are going on.

[Charlemagne on the Fox]

This guy's photo does not disappoint:

[equaviator]

Sounds to me like you're afraid for Trump. There is nothing we can do to help him deal with NK except to have confidence in him and his generals.

[Mears]

I just got in and had NPR on in the car.

Dreadful-——just a lot of nastiness and hate delivered in low,well modulated voices.

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[robroys woman]

Yeah. They make a point to “sound smart” as they spout lunacy. They are starting to drop into the MSNBC territory. I can’t even take them seriously any more.