Things Trump Is Doing Right

[Warren Dew]

(04-17-2017, 10:19 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(04-17-2017, 07:16 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(04-17-2017, 11:17 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(04-17-2017, 08:50 AM)Warren Dew Wrote: Far better to take action now, when most of Kim's missiles are blowing up on launch, than to wait until he has missiles that can actually reach their destinations.

Right now, he probably can't hit us.  He can likely hit South Korea and Japan.  So, if we go now, it's only (insert racial slurs here) Asians that get clobbered, rather than Americans.  

You've been following Kinser's theory on tribes?  If members of your tribe are OK, what happens to other tribes doesn't matter?  More truth to that than I'd like, especially for those with red values.  America First, Huzzah!

Right now, Aegis ships and THAAD can still make intercepts.  If we wait for North Korea to develop more sophisticated nuclear weapons, South Korea will eventually lose millions of people instead of thousands.

But hey, given Kinser's theory, I can see why white people who talk about "only Asians that get clobbered" might not care about that.

Do you think North Korea and its Dear Leader would launch a nuclear attack against the South, even after what it considers a provocation, knowing that it would mean the certain end to his government and his life?

We should certainly make crystal clear to them that this would be the price.

You can't make that clear to him, not five or ten years from now when he has more sophisticated capabilities.

Let's say he nukes the THAAD batteries once he has nuclear cruise missiles, which is maybe a couple years off.  Are you going to destroy him, knowing he'll use launch on warning capabilities to destroy Seoul?  His history suggests that he will do it, gambling that you will not destroy him.

But if we destroy his nuclear capabilities now, leaving his regime in place, and we assume he is rational, he will most assuredly not launch an all out conventional war, because then we would destroy his regime.  He would have to satisfy himself with symbolic retaliation.

I think that's our best choice.