Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Monday urged military leaders "to be ready" with military options for President Donald Trump to deal with North Korea should diplomacy fail -- after Trump reprimanded his top brass last week for not providing him contingency plans quickly enough.
"Right now it is a diplomatically led, economic sanctions-buttressed effort to try to turn North Korea off this path,” Mattis said following a speech at the annual convention of the Association of the United States Army in Washington. “Now, what does the future hold? Neither you nor I can say, so there’s one thing the U.S. Army can do, and that is we have got to be ready to ensure that we have military options that our president can employ if needed.”
On Thursday, Trump told Mattis and his top generals in a White House meeting that he wanted military options at a “much faster pace.” The president subsequently suggested to reporters that “maybe it’s the calm before the storm," sparking widespread speculation that the cryptic reference was to Korea war plans.
Before Mattis' remarks Monday, Trump tweeted, “Our country has been unsuccessfully dealing with North Korea for 25 years, giving billions of dollars & getting nothing. Policy didn't work!”
I am at the point right now where I am just assuming that Trump is going to attack North Korea.
In some ways I think he feels he has no other choice.
He understands NOTHING about diplomacy, and does not care about the long term affects of anything that he does.
What's more he desperately needs to shut down this Russia investigation, and since he cannot fire Robert Mueller without making things worse, he has to do something huge to pull attention away from it and insulate himself from further investigations.
Just ask yourself, which Republicans are going to support trying to remove the president while he is in the middle of conducting a brand new war?
We did just have the most bomb happy president for the last 8 years. Even the liberal mainstream media reported that.
ReplyDeleteOh my. And who got our troops out of Iraq? Who did not start another ground war? Who saved the auto industry and the housing market? And dearie, your 'media' is conservative. Trump got three times the amount of coverage that Clinton did in the last year. And was never called out on his taxes, his abominable behavior toward women, his wives and affairs. Oh no, he was just permitted to stand there every day and lie through his veneers, while the 'liberal' media ignored Clinton's sane and intelligent policy rallies. Go kiss Trump's butt somewhere else.
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DeleteHow's the weather today in Mother Russia?Do you get paid in rubles or vodka? Go back to Breitbart where people and stupid and crazy enough to believe your BS.
DeleteAnd tell your unwashed,gin soaked boss,Bannon to dry up and take a fucking bath.
DeleteNyet comrade. Go back to Moscow.
DeleteHey Russia. What's with the upchuck of graves? ;)0
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Delete"The specific effects of today’s action, Earthjustice Attorney Abigail Dillen suggests, could be that “the president and Pruitt will presumably score a few political points with their base, and maybe some coal execs will fly down to Mar-a-Lago to celebrate a symbolic victory.”
"There is a certain irony to the timing of the repeal. Scientists have pointed to the connection between climate change and the intensity of the recent hurricanes and California’s wildfires. Yet Pruitt dodged a question from CNN last month about the connection between climate change and devastating back-to-back hurricanes. Pruitt answered that was “very, very insensitive” to use “time and effort to address” climate change while Florida was coping with Irma’s floodwaters."
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/10/theres-more-to-scott-pruitts-attack-on-obamas-climate-reg-than-meets-the-eye/
O/T isn't going change the
DeleteRacket of the Century.
Russia dropped $$$$ in USA.
Then the FAKE assassination!
America was set up. Enjoy!
Now go give the Ogliarchs a hug. Haha haha. USA suckers!
In the first hour Seoul will be destroyed and North Korea will be a radioactive crater. Then the fallout will affect surrounding countries- China, Russia, Japan. The US will be regarded as a pariah nation by the rest of the world for the rest of our lives. All because Congress is too spineless to act on Trump's unfitness today- this situation is really on them.
ReplyDeletePrevailing winds will carry nuclear fallout across Japan, across the Pacific, onto the US West Coast where it will fall with the rain, concentrated on the West Coast, but, affecting all the US and Canada.
Delete"“This is a common problem when trying to do illustrative games in classes. The mental frame people usually bring is that it is a ‘game,’ and so just like other games (poker, football, etc.), the point is to win,”"hope our world’s leaders have taken a proper accounting of the stakes."
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https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/812304736619732992?lang=en
-Alaska 7 Hawaii
FUCK YOU> dick cheney!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Hymn_of_the_Republic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy6AOGRsR80
Ask Dubya how that worked out.
ReplyDeleteBring back the draft with NO deferments. We’ll see who is gung ho to start a nuclear war then.
Deni, of what earthly value is a draft for a nuclear war?
DeleteAs for the no deferments, that's just plain silly, but I'll listen to your explanation of your reasoning.
Oh guilty as hell paints naked pics of himself bathing. Can't wash it a way.
DeleteManny saw this coming the day Trump was elected. Trumps lack of caring for all people, and his hug ego will rule over his small mind. This military action will never be forgiven by most of the worlds people. Unfortunately, China and Russia will be drawn into this terrible Trump war, as we bomb millions of people again.
ReplyDeleteThe war machine keeps marching proud and happy with a never ending collusion of cooperate greed. Mattis gave a great speech if you believe in war solving problems. He was asked softball questions which he already had a prepared answer.
I think we should all take a knee in protest of Trump!
6:22 -- "Liberal mainstream media"!
ReplyDeleteDrink!!
We now should have a common enemy in dicktator rump!
ReplyDeleteHowever our spineless politicians will not stand up to a bully.
We have stupid ,greedy , hateful Neanderthals ruining the world.
Its been nice?
Mattis, the voice of reason. Don't say they haven't warned us.
ReplyDeleteWHICH WAR ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
ReplyDelete"Just ask yourself, which Republicans are going to support trying to remove the president while he is in the middle of conducting a brand new war?"
War against the NFL
War against the NBA/Stephen Curry/Golden State Warriors
Mexico Wall War
War against Senator Corker
War against Mueller
War against Puerto Rico
War for White Supremacy
Misogynist War
Media War
War against DACA
War against President Obama
War against Etc etc
This guy can't get along with anybody
What a horrible situation! It seems like this year has been the worst. Trump brings the ugly where ever he goes and whatever he touches. I hope there will be no war. But if the men decide there will be, make no mistake. It's not about anything honorable. It's what G said. Trying to get people's minds off the Russia investigation. Oh, and I am sure there are those that stand to make money if there is a war. Not to mention the "guys" want to try out some new weapons and see what they can do.
ReplyDeleteHorrors!
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/presidential-obstruction-of-justice-the-case-of-donald-j-trump-final.pdf
ReplyDelete"make a detailed case that Trump did indeed fire Comey with the intention of thwarting the investigation into Russia’s interference with the 2016 presidential election.
Specifically, they note that Trump’s own public statements might give prosecutors all the ammunition they need to prove the president had a corrupt intention in his decision to fire Comey, whose bureau was taking a lead role in the Russia investigation."
"ven if Trump’s precise motivation for firing Comey cannot be determined, the paper notes that having mixed motives for making a decision does not preclude someone from having a corrupt intention."<THAT
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/10/10/bombshell-report-finds-trump-obstructed-justice-impeached.html
Delete"It is an analysis of the known facts and the laws involved with the behavior of Trump and his associates. The deliberations and discussions in the report likely mirror those that are going on with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his staff."
"rump challenged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to an “IQ test” while talking to a reporter at the White House."“I think it’s fake news,” Trump told Forbes, “but if he did that, I guess we’ll have to compare IQ tests — and I can tell you WHO is going to WIN.” DO IT CHEATER!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-challenges-tillerson-to-iq-test-after-secretary-of-state-calls-him-a-moron/
"“How is all this not the storm?” he continued. “What kind of sociopath would use that terminology while people are still literally cleaning up from storms?”
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/what-the-fck-is-wrong-with-this-guy-jon-stewart-and-stephen-colbert-rail-against-sociopath-trump/
Bad Cop Rump/Good Cop Tilly?
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"Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive."
Sh@t!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe American people do NOT want war!
Sh@t for brains in office, is not even a leader, get him out!
I thought Mattis and the rest were supposed to be protecting us from Donald's Nuclear War? WTF? He and the others might as well resign for all the good they're doing.
ReplyDeleteThe way to war is to divide the people. He's done that. To a certain degree. Have his rich cabinet mess up the rules so the U.S. government will be disenfranchised. Then start a back in forth with countries that are always unstable.
ReplyDeleteYes, methinks that Putin has taught that old brat in the White House how to undo our democracy.
Now, I think, clear headed people in this country needs to remove this bastard from the house of power. We can not have a war. Not if we want to remain a country. There will always be those discontents that want to fight. Let them go back into the holes they came from when Russia made Trump president.
First, this is NOT a "good-cop, bad-cop" routine. Such a routine requires sophisticated planning and execution. Neither Trump nor the people close to him are smart or sophisticated enough to pull it off.
ReplyDeleteNO, this is nothing but the manifestation of an ignorant, immature, bullying asshole when he gets his hands on power.
Second, sounds to me as though someone is building up for a Gulf-of-Tonkin moment -- that is, fly aircraft or move ships too close the NKorean territory, provoking them to respond, then claiming they fired on us.
Seoul will be mostly in ruins with hundreds of thousands dead and wounded. Ditto for parts of Japan. Millions of refugees will flee from NKorea into China and Russia. We will lose the respect of the rest of the world for a decade.
Goddam but I hope the goobers who voted for this piece of shit are happy. In fact, I hope it's the sons and daughters of these goobers who are the first to die along the Korean DMZ.