NKorea learns US no pushover
Around the world hundreds of times a day people are robbed. All robbers have one thing in common: They weigh the danger to themselves as they pick their victims. Someone committing a robbery would much prefer a victim who is compliant and easy.
After more than three decades of robbing Western countries through ever-escalating threats of nuclear weapons, the Kim family has been conditioned to think that if they need money or food to maintain their wicked regimes, all they have to do is make the threats and demands and the West will roll over and send them what they want.
It is not much different than an armed gunman promising not to kill you as long as you hand over your wallet or purse. Funny, but one never hears of an armed robbery in a police station.
Enter Donald Trump with three former military generals on his staff, and we now have someone saying “Nope, I’m not handing you what you demand, and I have my own gun and will use it on you if you do not cease and desist your attempt at robbing me.”
Trump is doing what he needs to do to prevent a war. Yes, he is speaking to the Kim regime with extreme language, but it is language that is designed to get the attention of what is no more than a common criminal.
Further, our country is faced with a choice: Do we deal with this now while he has inaccurate weapons and only a few warheads that might very well be shot down if he tries to attack, or do we wait until he has 80 or 90 nukes and missiles that can accurately attack one of our cities?
There are no real good choices here, but it is insane to keep doing what we have been doing. It’s time to quit being the compliant victim.
Rick Gibbs Worthington
There is a lot of dissatisfaction today, and Trump mirrors our condition.
I am dissatisfied. Our current president gained votes by pretending to be a friend of those left behind by modernization and globalization of manufacturing activity. His Cabinet appointments and policy initiatives do not support those people.
W. Raymond Mills in the United States would be bankrupt.
Instead, it seems like half of the students who attended these same colleges and universities are bankrupt.
William Beelman Columbus Gahanna