(08-09-2017, 05:20 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: Okay, here's my take.   There are no good scenarios here.   The one thing we cannot do is allow this to continue, because eventually North Korea will have enough nuclear armed ICBMs to take out the entire United States.  

Whatever Trump decides to do, I pray he has the wisdom and the steadiness and the fortitude to see it through.

I think he needs to go on TV and start explaining this to the American people.  We need to be united.

I also think he needs to quit making threats unless he intends to carry them out.  Because once we get caught bluffing, we're done.  We look like wimps, no one will believe a thing we say, and war is the only solution at that point.   I think it would be a lot wiser to stay silent, pretend to ignore their threats, and move our assets into position.   That would be a much more credible threat that this "fire and fury" talk.   Because right now, we are months away from being able to carry out a successful first strike.  We have to move lots of people and equipment and supplies into position first, and that could take months.   So no matter how much Trump threatens, Kim doesn't believe him, because we are in no position to start a war right now.  

I think the best solution right now involves China.  They don't like NK having ICBMs any more than we do.   War in the area would be very bad for business.  And they certainly don't want to disrupt their economy.  So I would tell them they can have North Korea if they want it.   Just take it.   Obviously, I don't know how to get the Chinese to intervene successfully.   But I think they are the only palatable way out of this, because war between the US and North Korea would mean millions of civilian casualties, a lot of them in South Korea, and severe damage to the world economy.