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You are probably right about the reasons behind most of those who want a pre-emptive strike, and that they would want it whether there was any imminent danger or other compelling reasons. However, 42 was making the point that there could be circumstances where a pre-emptive strike, even with its worrying consequences, could be the best option. I think those circumstances would be unlikely, but not impossible.
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The US and the rest of the world can certainly trust that the eminently knowledgeable, statesmanlike and thoughtful current president would never order a preemptive strike without overwhelming justification⸮
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Really? Was that what he was saying? Sounded more like an attempt to frame an aggressive action as a defensive action: "We must vapourise millions of people in a few seconds in order to protect ourselves." We all know that nuclear weapon are something that can never be used in good conscience, just as we know that the unilateral use of nuclear weapons would make an instant pariah out of any nation and it's people - yes, even the US.JimC wrote:You are probably right about the reasons behind most of those who want a pre-emptive strike, and that they would want it whether there was any imminent danger or other compelling reasons. However, 42 was making the point that there could be circumstances where a pre-emptive strike, even with its worrying consequences, could be the best option. I think those circumstances would be unlikely, but not impossible.
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I was only considering a non-nuclear pre-emptive strike, perhaps to take out nuclear-armed missiles that very solid evidence indicated were being prepared for launch. I would never advocate a pre-emptive nuclear strike, and hopefully even Trump would not consider one.Brian Peacock wrote:Really? Was that what he was saying? Sounded more like an attempt to frame an aggressive action as a defensive action: "We must vapourise millions of people in a few seconds in order to protect ourselves." We all know that nuclear weapon are something that can never be used in good conscience, just as we know that the unilateral use of nuclear weapons would make an instant pariah out of any nation and it's people - yes, even the US.JimC wrote:You are probably right about the reasons behind most of those who want a pre-emptive strike, and that they would want it whether there was any imminent danger or other compelling reasons. However, 42 was making the point that there could be circumstances where a pre-emptive strike, even with its worrying consequences, could be the best option. I think those circumstances would be unlikely, but not impossible.
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We've had them in our sights for a long time now. I did think we were supposed to bomb Iran first though.
It's weird to me that all this always gets put on whoever is in office at the time it finally kicks off. It's like I'm just supposed to forget that we've been building a case to bomb them forever now. Oh, what's this, NK is a problem? I can't believe this is happening with Trump in office --oh the timing, oh the bad luck. I guess if Hillary were in there we could bomb them for the right reasons...
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It's weird to me that all this always gets put on whoever is in office at the time it finally kicks off. It's like I'm just supposed to forget that we've been building a case to bomb them forever now. Oh, what's this, NK is a problem? I can't believe this is happening with Trump in office --oh the timing, oh the bad luck. I guess if Hillary were in there we could bomb them for the right reasons...
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The difference between Trump's administration and the previous one, is that the previous one had a full State Dept involved in a concerted diplomatic effort, where the current one has a decimated State Dept and a leader who undermines its diplomatic effort by trolling NK's unstable maniac of a leader on Twitter.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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No but no but yeah, the US has been building a case all these years (what is that case, by the way?) to enable the incompetent paranoid narcissist chickenhawk in his tweet-trolling of the other self-important, entitled-from-birth dingaling. Clinton would have been just as bad, amirite?
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Diplomatic solutions like the sanctions that worked so well in Iraq? Like blacklisting the leader...
Look, I just can't accept that these nations get put on the shit list, get marked for bombing at some future date*, but actually only end up getting bombed because the wrong guy got in office.
*How else should we interpret Bush calling NK an axis Rose from the doomed paradise city?
Look, I just can't accept that these nations get put on the shit list, get marked for bombing at some future date*, but actually only end up getting bombed because the wrong guy got in office.
*How else should we interpret Bush calling NK an axis Rose from the doomed paradise city?
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The US has no good options when it comes to NK; for all his idiotic posturing, Trump has not, in reality, made a bad position any worse. Perhaps the best option, though anathema to the hairy-chested self image of the US, is to withdraw, to become isolationist, to let overseas regions solve their own problems and to only worry about continental defence, and to a degree, the amount of naval strength needed to defend US and allied shipping for world trade. Disengage, guys, disengage - it will save you heaps...
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A conventional war between N and S Korea could easily be triggered. Trump ordered bombings during dessert in Florida. Bombing N Korea missile facility would start a war.
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I'm not making excuses for NK. I'm not saying the regime shouldn't be challenged or that the world shouldn't let it know that if it looks to exert itself beyond its borders it's going to meet some serious resistance. I just don't think we need an idiot with poor impulse control shouting over the wall with a megaphone about how he could take them in a scrap, how he owns their ass and how he's going to send the boys round to teach them lesson any day now.
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NK has proven incapable of following the terms laid out by the international community which were developed to secure the safety of its people and the stability of the region...what is that case, by the way?
...we gave'em this, and that, and by golly, they still haven't got their shit together... amiright?
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Yeah, I just think it's time for the US to accept their foreign policy failures, which you must admit have been pretty darn consistent for something that supposedly hinges on the guy in the oval office...Brian Peacock wrote:I'm not making excuses for NK. I'm not saying the regime shouldn't be challenged or that the world shouldn't let it know that if it looks to exert itself beyond its borders it's going to meet some serious resistance. I just don't think we need an idiot with poor impulse control shouting over the wall with a megaphone about how he could take them in a scrap, how he owns their ass and how he's going to send the boys round to teach them lesson any day now.
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I don't know about you but I don't see that as a case for starting a war which would likely result in hundreds of thousands dying.Sean Hayden wrote:NK has proven incapable of following the terms laid out by the international community which were developed to secure the safety of its people and the stability of the region...what is that case, by the way?
...we gave'em this, and that, and by golly, they still haven't got their shit together... amiright?
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The USA cannot possibly become isolationist. It has way too many fingers in way too many foreign pies.JimC wrote:Perhaps the best option, though anathema to the hairy-chested self image of the US, is to withdraw, to become isolationist...
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