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Gen. Gary Luck, a former commander of American forces in South Korea, estimates that a new Korean war could cause one million casualties and $1 trillion in damage.
Kurt Campbell, a former assistant secretary of state for East Asia and now chairman of the Asia Group in Washington, warns, I do not believe there is any plausible military action that does not bring with it a possibility of a catastrophic conflict.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis knows all this, and he and other grown-ups in the Trump administration would resist any call for a pre-emptive strike. Concern about the North Korean response is what prevented Richard Nixon from a military strike in 1969 when the North shot down a U.S. plane, killing all 31 Americans on board. And its what has prevented presidents since from striking North Korea as it has crossed one red line after another, from counterfeiting U.S. hundred-dollar bills to expanding its nuclear program.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/the-north-korea-trump-nightmare.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)because he lacks empathy (as well as a brain).
Mme. Defarge
(8,009 posts)his soul is very, very, very sick. This is the definition of a monster.
winstars
(4,219 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)MFM008
(19,803 posts)needs to put an end to his reign of error.
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)on a sticky note that fell off the desk in the Oval Office and got stuck to Kushner's shoe.