(12-05-2017, 12:12 PM)FBT Wrote:

(12-05-2017, 11:25 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: I can't understand why so many of you seem to think that Kim Jong Un having the ability to destroy the United States at the touch of a button is preferable to fighting a war to prevent him having that ability.   This whole idea of "well, he probably won't do it..." isn't enough for me.  

Why should we accept a threat to our very existence when we have the ability to prevent it?

He doesn't have the capability to destroy the US at the touch of a button. He has the ability to lob a few missiles in our direction.  If that happens, his country would be leveled before his missiles had a chance to hit anything.  He knows this.  He'll continue to threaten, and he will keep launching at water targets to amp up the rhetoric.  The moment one of those missiles is tipped with nukes, he will get a quick trip to visit his predecessors.

He doesn't have the capability to destroy the US right now, but he will in the future if we don't do anything.   He will continue to build nuclear weapons, and he will build better and better ICBMs, and more and more of them, until eventually, if we don't do anything, he will have the ability to destroy every major US city.

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