Posted on 09/19/2017 2:44:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Even by President Donald Trump’s standards of aggressive bombast and hyperbole, his speech to the United Nations on Tuesday was a stunner. He overtly threatened to wipe out North Korea, a country of 25 million people.
Trump and North Korean President Kim Jong Un have been trash-talking for some time now about North Korea’s aggressive pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. But Trump raised the ante in his U.N. speech when he said that the “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself.”
Just prior to that statement Trump said, “The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.”
Let that sink in for a minute. Set aside for a moment the name-calling, which is a Trump trademark. There is no mistaking the intent here. The president was not talking about regime change. Or sanctions. Or international pressure. He was talking about launching an attack designed to wipe out 25 million people.
It is possible that Trump is employing the “Madman Theory” employed to great usefulness by Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. For that technique to work the other side simply has to believe that a leader is a madman capable of anything. Of course, there is always the danger that the other side might be so fearful that it would decide to launch a first strike. It’s a risky strategy.
Prior to the U.N. speech a national poll indicated that more than 60 percent of Americans were “uneasy” with Trump’s ability to handle the North Korea situation. After the U.N. speech, we will bet that number is higher.
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I see the Stalinist editorial board listened to the speech... not.
Oh, for crying out loud.
Every time it rains in San Jose, they have to herd the editorial board from their worthless newspaper back into the hen house so they don’t all drown from looking up to see where the wet stuff is coming from.
It might make them pay attention and behave.
25 mil was the number Obama’s buddy Billy Ayers wanted to liquidate, but those were American citizens.
if only
The era of Presidential appeasement has evidently ended.
How else to deal with an enemy than to let him know for certain that he will be destroyed if a certain threshold is crossed.
It’s a good thing these panty wastes were few during WWII.
And? You’d rather absorb Rocket Loon’s nuke and wait for another?
The policy follows my first rule of survival:
If it comes down to either you or me biting the dust, it’s going to be you every time.
If the situation is either 25 million of them versus a significant portion of our $350 million, Little Rocket Man had better damn well believe it’s going to be his 25 million.
If those 25 million give a crap they will revolt and overthrow that idiot!!!
True story and the tactics of the San Jose Monkey News. You wake up one Sunday AM and there’s a Sunday paper in your driveway....next Sunday, another paper in your driveway...following Sunday, again, there’s that paper. Then, you come home from that next day Monday and grab your mail. And there it is, a bill from the Monkey news saying you owe them.
I kid you not.....happened to me on a couple occasions.
Only after we spot them Seattle, San Francisco and LA. That way it not so lopsided.
We hired Trump to do this!
Finally, a POTUS that will deal with an imminent, existential threat to the US. Other Presidents have kicked this can down the road to here.
Now. Today.
There is no more road and no more time.
OF COURSE we would nuke Norklandia to the point that there may be no survivors. And they better damn well believe it. And China and their <300 nukes better believe it too.
Half of what’s wrong with the world is because of the idiocy known as proportionate response. What you want is disproportionate response that destroys the enemies ability to attack you for decades. Then other enemies will fear you and leave you alone. This tit for tat silliness just encourages the bad guys.
Fornicate yourself.
Obama and Hitlery and Bill Clintoon let the NORKS have nukes. So, I guess they prefer we get wiped out.
Golly, I don't know if I can set aside the name calling. After all, he called a murderous tyrant "rocket man". How can one forgive that? /s
“Germany hasn’t started a world war in 70 years.”
Slackers.
These people are so literal.
Destroying their capability to destroy their neighbors will not mean killing ALL of North Korea. Just crazy ones.
Anyway, China and Russia will have something to say about that.
Verses the Norks wiping out 100 million Americans.
DITTO
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