Posted on 09/19/2017 2:44:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Even by President Donald Trumps 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 Koreas 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. Its a risky strategy.
Prior to the U.N. speech a national poll indicated that more than 60 percent of Americans were uneasy with Trumps ability to handle the North Korea situation. After the U.N. speech, we will bet that number is higher.
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“a lot more”
If we have to pre-empt them, or God forbid retaliate, it will take no less than 100 warheads.
Just to be sure.
Anything less would be a half-assed job and a risk.
Trump’s plan is to wipe out 25 million North Koreans and ten clowns.
Trump simply restated long standing US policy that any WMD attack on the United States will result in destruction of the attacker
Actually we will wait until his ICBM drops slightly off target around San Francisco and it wipes out the San Jose Mercury News. IDIOTS!
Trump said he wanted to kill all those people? BS!
Doesn’t have to kill 25 million to wipe out North Korea, just a few, along with Rocket Boy. Methinks the author is projecting based on the musings of Ayers and fellow travelers who want to do in roughly that many of us to move the agenda forward.
But if it takes that many, then better them than us.
It’s a good start. Throw in Iran and now we’re talkin’.
Editorial: Really? Trumps plan is to wipe out 25 million people?
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So, jack-ass, how many millions of people has abortion “wiped out”? Bet you don’t have any problem with THAT.
"The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally."
Trump could help a pregnant woman hit by a bus have a emergency delievery, and the MSM would only care that he doesn't have a medical liscense.
25 million? and just how many would be wiped out if Fatboi were allowed to launch without fear of retaliation?
Perhaps Fatboi cannot comprehend of the fact that some abuses of others in this world is certain to cause pushback, in a very firm and authoritative manner. After all, he has never had to suffer the consequences of his actions, and he might not know of this very basic aspect of human nature.
In the abstract, it is possible to feel very deeply for the North Korean people, as they are victims held hostage by an extreme megalomaniac, who is possibly mentally ill.
But just as we could not concern ourselves with the plight of the German people for as long as they were held hostage by Adolf Hitler, who did not surrender before he was taken out by his own hand, perhaps in the last hours, Kim Jong-Un shall not surrender either.
It may be very much in the interests of the Chinese government to quietly remove Kim Jong-Un for their own peace of mind, and install a much more amenable puppet of their own.
No, he wasn't. But if he were, I wouldn't have a problem with it. Better to have 25 million dead commies than to have them spreading terror over here. If we did an all-out attack, it would mostly be hard military targets and many of the people would flee to the countryside, and seek refuge in China or elsewhere. Plus there are a large number of North Korean workers outside of their country. So plenty would survive, and hopefully would chill. We're not trying to wipe out all of them, just mostly their fat leader and accomplices and their means to create havoc.
It is called WINNING!
Sacramento Bee, Fresno Bee, San Jose Mercury News — they all have a sort of desperate snarkiness that makes them almost instantly recognizable.
Better them than us.
Only commies are allowed to kill millions of commies, doncha know.
So, it is just fine to criticize Trump, but when the crazy, fat little bastard in Norklandia threatens to “turn America into ash” or to launch an EMP strike against us (which could kill 90% of Americans in a year), not a f’ing peep.
I am SOOOOO sick and tired of these Leftist morons that it is beyond my ability to come up with words.
Yhis response is completely irresponsible. Someone please post a picture of that editorial board and identify who they are and their background.
I notice these aholes left no way for the public to editorialize them.
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