It’s a colossal failure of leadership that it ever got this far.

I only remember the tail end of the Cold War (was in 6th grade when the Soviet Union collapsed), but the big difference is that, realistically, North Korea can only cause so much damage before getting completely obliterated (not to say there wouldn’t be huge amounts of collateral damage and fallout from that). But the…

“North Korea is not run by crazy people. It is run by rational people....”

Is it if they’re shooting missles into the ocean? If they look like they’re going to hit Guam, by all means, fire up THAAD.

No, after you shoot theirs down(no matter how many you destroy), you go and kill any of the NK farts involved in launching the missiles. You don’t just go “ooo, fireworks”.

Maybe if Obama hadn’t been sitting on his thumb since this first came up in 2010 we wouldn’t be where we are. And Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State for a portion of that time. Do you what the Secretary of State does? Yeah, they set foreign policy. Trump is going to try and fix this, and history will reflect…

No. Please don’t listen to the nitwits saying “yes.” They think Trump caused all of this in his seven months in office. They missed the line in the article stating that “The current crisis, while long-simmering and unfortunately never effectively dealt with by previous administrations...”

Something tells me the sky will be thick with Standard Missile and THAAD interceptors.

Having met one of the men who was intercepting and translating the morse code orders during the crisis, I’d say the tensions were higher then than now. Bombers were in the air and missiles were warming in their silos.

I’m going to disagree with some others: back then it was worse, if only because fear of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union was the fear of complete human extinction. A nuclear war with North Korea would only be the worst or second worst day in human history, depending on your position on the Toba Catastrophe…

If NK does launch missiles on a trajectory within 25 nm of Guam, we need to launch Aegis destroyer based and THAAD based interceptors and try to knock them out of the sky.

As I said elsewhere, this camp is on a strategic stretch of highway. The Iranians and their proxies want an unbroken Shia sphere of influence from Tehran to Baghdad to Damascus. So holding that ground is actually preventing Iran from gaining too much influence in the region (which would cause much more religious…

To run with that analogy, I think the US response was “WHOA DUDE! I’M NOT INTO THAT! BACK OFF!”

I’m curious what you would trade in a negotiation with North Korea.