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2016-04-02 Home Front: Politix

John Bolton: 'I Don't Want to See Anybody Else Get Nuclear Weapons' ‐ Even Our Allies

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Posted by Blossom Unains5562 2016-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 That ship has sailed. The only one interested in your defense is yourself. Relying upon some foreign entity that vacillates, dithers, and plays stupid games with Leftist of the Month autocrats, is just plain suicidal. Reliability is sorta of like virginity. You can only lose it once in a lifetime.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-04-02 00:45|| 2016-04-02 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Ditto, P2k.

Posted by AlanC 2016-04-02 08:21|| 2016-04-02 08:21|| Front Page Top

#3 After letting North Korea and Iran and Pakistan get them, do we have any moral right to keep them out of the hands of South Korea?

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-04-02 13:57|| 2016-04-02 13:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Bolton was born November 20, 1948. Soviet Union conducted its first nuclear test on 29 August 1949.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-04-02 15:48|| 2016-04-02 15:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Then there's the question, if North Korea nuc'd South or Japan or anyone besides the US (or even us), would the prez respond in kind?

I doubt it.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2016-04-02 18:54|| 2016-04-02 18:54|| Front Page Top

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