Complex questions, simple solutions
Here's a surefire way to avoid nuclear holocaust with North Korea-- don't fire first. This is the obvious solution. Kim Jung-Un is not going to drop an atomic fireball on Guam even if his nuclear reach stretches there. Do we really think that's a possibility? He bombs a remote island that affects the U.S.'s nuclear capability not in the slightest, and then we don't respond with a bomb directly on Pyongyang? That's stupid. All of the bluster is stupid. Our president is immature, insecure, and an emotional weakling, and Kim used to wear that crown.---
"Now then: Boston and Philadelphia both claim to be the cradle of liberty. Which city is correct? Neither one. Liberty is only now being born in the United States. It wasn't born in 1776. Slavery was legal. Even white women were powerless, essentially the property of their father or husband or closest male relative, or maybe a judge or lawyer. Liberty was only conceived in Boston or Philadelphia. Boston or Philadelphia was the motel of liberty, so to speak.
"Now then: The gestation period for a 'possum is twelve days. The gestation period for an Indian elephant is twenty-two months. The gestation period for American liberty, friends and neighbors, turns out to be two hundred years or more!
"Only in my lifetime has there been serious talk of giving women and racial minorities anything like economic, legal, and social equality. Let liberty be born at last, and let its lusty birth cries be heard in Kingston and in every other city and town and village and hamlet in this vast and wealthy nation, not in Jefferson's time but in the time of the youngest people here this afternoon. Somewhere I heard a baby cry. It should cry for joy."--- Kurt Vonnegut, 1990
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