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2017-09-04 China-Japan-Koreas

Former CIA, NSA head: Trump's tough N. Korea talk 'could lead to great danger'

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-04 10:30|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 It's all Trump's fault. Kim Jong-un had nothing to do with any of these misunderstandings.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-04 11:01|| 2017-09-04 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, who served as both the director of the NSA and the CIA

Ever hear the expression "actions speak louder", mi general?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-09-04 11:02|| 2017-09-04 11:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe General Hayden should have some tough talk for Pudgy and North Korea rather than Trump.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-04 11:11|| 2017-09-04 11:11|| Front Page Top

#4 "If we would only surrender, bow down, and allow them to lop of our heads we would finally have peace!

Posted by CrazyFool 2017-09-04 11:23|| 2017-09-04 11:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe General Hayden should have some tough talk for Pudgy and North Korea rather than Trump.
Posted by JohnQC

You can set your clock by these Klingon ramblings against Trump. They systematically rotate their bashings. I suppose they feel obliged to do so, being regime change specialists and puppet masters of the Deep State. If it were not such a serious issue it might be comical.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-04 11:26|| 2017-09-04 11:26|| Front Page Top

#6 It's after the weekend and the beginning of the new month. A muted conversation at the cocktail party or picnic, a quiet word aside when the remuneration is tendered. Perhaps even a pointed suggestion.

Even retired generals need to earn enough to eat.

Posted by Pappy 2017-09-04 12:11|| 2017-09-04 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 and Alisyn has shown herself to be a CNN doofus

Posted by Frank G 2017-09-04 12:41|| 2017-09-04 12:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Long term US strategic existence ends in eventual enslavement by somebody if we capitulate to a 4th world despot with an H-Bomb. Think about it. Every negotiation in the back of any oppositions mind - "They didn't stand up to a mentally ill spoiled brat. I can roll these pretenders."

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-04 15:29|| 2017-09-04 15:29|| Front Page Top

#9 "if we capitulate to a 4th world despot with an H-Bomb. Think about it. Every negotiation in the back of any oppositions mind - "They didn't stand up to a mentally ill spoiled brat. I can roll these pretenders."

The Western reaction to 9/11 amounted to a political capitulation to 5th world warlords without any serious military assets after an asymmetrical mass fatality attack on the US.

The North Korea crisis is but one of the consequences of Western leaders' deliberate erosion of Western deterrence that has taken plane for over 15 years.

Why shouldn't Kim sponsor a VX terror attack in a Western nation that would kill a few thousand people? 9/11 didn't spell the end for Afghanistan, the Pashuns or the Taliban.

Why shouldn't he expect the West to cough up Danegeld payable to nuclear North Korea? Non nuclear Afghanistan got Danegeld as well.

During the Cold War rational adversaries would assess a potential US reaction to any aggressive move in light of America's reaction to Pearl Harbor.

Now the relevant precedent is 9/11. This is bad.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2017-09-04 16:08|| 2017-09-04 16:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Elmerert Hupens2660 - Exactly!

BTW rumor at the time had it that the ISI hired Bin Laden to put that bomb on the plane that killed their president.

A few years later 911 happened. Was it a hit contracted by the ISI?

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-04 20:43|| 2017-09-04 20:43|| Front Page Top

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