04-17-2017, 08:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-17-2017, 10:55 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
The Cold War approach to communism has traditionally crossed containment with Mutual Assured Destruction. That's been going on since Churchill's Iron Curtain speech. Suddenly no more 'failed policy'? It's time to abandon 'strategic patience'?
It might be that North Korea has the most highly egotistical, dangerous, irrational leader the Communist block has ever had, which is saying something. It might also be that we can actually trump North Korea in having a more egotistical, dangerous, irrational leader.
I've always said, mostly about domestic terror, that it takes two to escalate a spiral of violence. Meanwhile, I've no plans to leave the East Coast just now.
It might be that North Korea has the most highly egotistical, dangerous, irrational leader the Communist block has ever had, which is saying something. It might also be that we can actually trump North Korea in having a more egotistical, dangerous, irrational leader.
I've always said, mostly about domestic terror, that it takes two to escalate a spiral of violence. Meanwhile, I've no plans to leave the East Coast just now.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.