Allowing North Koreans to continue developing nuclear capabilities is a grave mistake. I watched our lack of airport security before 9/11, and it did not surprise me when two New York City towers were demolished and cheered by Muslim fanatics and America haters. Part of the hatred was brought about by the previous actions of oil companies, American greed and insensitivity and government inaction.
Today, an even more serious threat exists because of our failure to destroy North Korea's dictators - the current idiot and his deceased father. When a ruler inherits control of a country that has millions goose-stepping, like Nazi troops in the 1940s, when they are on the brink of developing nuclear warheads and threatening to bomb Americans, we should kill them before they annihilate us.
Past U.S administrations failed to stop this enemy. My understanding is the Korean War of the '50s has never seen a peace treaty - only a cease fire. North Korea is still a United Nations enemy. President Harry Truman ordered nuclear attacks on two Japanese cities to stop the killing of young allied troops, including possibly this one, me. Yet he sent 50,000, or so, Americans to deaths in Korea, failing to nuke North Korea to end that "conflict." I will never understand why. That failure was treasonous. So have been the failures of American leaders since then.
I saw first-hand - in Nagoya, Yokohama and Tokyo, Japan - how "conventional" bombing had totally leveled cities.
The nuclear bombing in Nagasaki and Hiroshima was even worse. Thousands of Americans were killed by the former actions. None were killed by the latter. The fact is, nuclear bombs brought total destruction of an enemy with minimal loss to our own young combatants. In my view, shared by most professional military people I have read/heard from, Truman and the U.N. were wrong about N. Korea; MacArthur was right.
Current N. Korean threats, their development of nuclear capabilities and their threatened attacks against us prove the Korean War is not over.
It is absolute stupidity to allow an enemy still at war with us to develop nuclear weapons they intend to use against us.
This patriotic American is ashamed to leave this future horror for my children/grandchildren - and yours - to experience. Imagine nuclear attack, because American presidents failed do everything in their power to destroy an enemy so clearly developing weapons of mass destruction to use against us. We took swift action, including warfare, to investigate whether Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. Today, there’s no doubt North Korea has them. They’ve set them off already!
I call for impeachment of those who are failing to act, failing to use the most destructive force available (nukes) against our North Korean enemy. They want nuclear weapons?
Then send them a half dozen and blow them to hell before they do that to us (and other countries, no doubt.) If we don’t act, one of these days, who knows when, if North Korea has its way, we will wake up to find not 2,996 killed and 6,000 wounded, not two towers attacked as on 9/11. Instead it will be millions killed, millions wounded in two (or more!) American cities.
It may be admirable turning a cheek to a threat of a fist; but it’s pure folly to ignore blatant, deadly threats of a declared enemy.
To this independent voter, and proud WWII veteran, this single issue is enough for Trump to get my vote.
I can’t believe no one from the U.S. Congress and not a single presidential candidate, of any party, is calling for nuclear action against North Korea.
Wake up!
We are still at war with North Korea. They simply took a pause from combat to develop rockets with nuclear warheads to use against us. And we’re allowing it! I’m calling for nuclear attacks, immediately, against North Korea.
I hope the call is repeated by others, before something far worse than 9/11 comes in the form of a nuclear attack upon American cities.
Dr. John R. Stenger
Milton
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