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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SJMN never fails to disappoint
I guarantee you no one on staff watched the entire Trump speech.
What a bunch of buffoons.
It was Slick Willy and Madeleine Notsobright who should be held accountable for the Nork FUBAR we’re facing today.
In 15 years (or less), we’ll face the same situation with Iran caused by Traitorobama.
If we go to war, we should go to win, not to reach a stalemate.
It does not bother me that 25 million people would be dead. They would the enemy and it would be a war.
War is hell.
It would probably be more sensible—and far more in the interests of the United States—to let North Korea drop some nuclear bombs on the West Coast.
President Truman and his Secretary of State threatened to wipe out Japan, a country of 72 million people, in 1945.
More libs siding with brutal leftist dictators who leave millions of dead in their wake. Filth.
The way the population of NORK is distributed I would be surprised if the U.S. killed more than 17 or 18M of them.
25M! GMAB!
China and Russia will have something to say about that.
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“NICE shooting.....” ?
You could be right...but not necessarily.
Imagine this...DJT is poised to act.Fat Pig's's closest aides,having been secretly offered the choice of "silver or lead" by our spooks and knowing full well what we're capable of (that having been explained to them by the Chicoms),act against Fat Pig.
Problem solved.
Hey,it's just as possible as *your* scenario.
” 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.”
I understand Little Kim has previously stated repeatedly that he will turn the US into a sea of flames....
Your Assured Destruction is far better than Mutually Assured Destruction, which every president from Kennedy to Trump (except for the weakling, racist, anti-American Obama) has had to be willing to do.
Make them beg for you to stop killing them is my view of it. Sure it’s brutal, but it did end WWII, and we had Germany,Italy, and Japan not at war with us for a long time.
Maybe we could just taze them. You know... all humane like.
Um, I thought it was Bill Ayers who wanted to kill 20 million Americans...
We roasted lots and lots of Japanese and the Chinese thought we di good work. And ...
Hyperbole is a funny thing... have to have an IQ above room temperature in order to appreciate it.
So? Threaten my family and I hope he melts a 100 million. I don’t see the issue.
And where was the brilliant "San Jose Mercury-News" when Idiot Obama was letting Hitler invade the Sudetenland, er, I mean Kim Jong Un make atomic bombs?
Were you so stupid that you didn't realize that Kim Jong Un with atomic bombs guarantees millions of people will die?
You could have stopped Hitler at the Sudetenland, but instead you demanded a foolish peace, when the cost of stopping Hitler would have been small.
Now you have the gall to talk about 25 million being killed, now that the potential to reach far more than that has been achieved?
Are you stupid? Are you stupid?
We shall be lucky if we push the third Reich back into Germany without killing more people than just 25 million, but that's what gets baked into the cake when you let an affirmative action moron pretend to be President because he's black and his color gave the media people orgasms.
Idiot foreign policy has consequences, and they are invariably bad and horrible. Idiot Obama will be responsible for any blood. (Along with Bill Clinton who enabled this vicious regime.)
I agree with your solution. Much less messy.
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