Here it comes.... Rex.Tillerson (Sec of State) puts an attack North Korea

[busterbrown]

in play... I remember Bush Administrations first comments on Military Attacks on Iraq.. This is gonna be a ground hog event.. with absolutely no comical ending...

Fact is...the way I see it.. Trump Is Running Out Of Distractions... This is his only avenue remaining!
He has run out of options...He’ll show the world! Fucking Frightening!

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/rex-tillerson-military-action-against-north-korea-table-n734771

[Tanuki]

1. Of course....he finds a day's worth of diplomacy too fatiguing

for his level of stamina. He'll be more than glad to hand the situation off to the generals.

[KingCharlemagne]

2. Say "good bye" to Seoul and the 38,000 U.S. troops stationed along

the DMZ. Pickling a fight with DPRK will make Vietnam look like a playground scuffle.

[busterbrown]

4. Worst part of your scenario?

Trump is the current commander in chief.... This will be the device he uses to deflate criticism of everything he does.

Only will take 4 minutes for Trump to set off a chain reaction which might destroy our planet....Scary

[KingCharlemagne]

5. My sole consolation out of this whole scenario is that a bunch

of rich pricks will be going down with the rest of us.

[busterbrown]

7. Yea, if your as old as me...60s

But if your 30 and just beginning a family..Might not work..

Obviously millions of other examples...But I do see your point.

Cnn is going over situation now.

[elfin]

3. On fast forward to disaster

We are in a time compression machine "dictated" by the necessity to mightily distract from traitorous acts by this administration related to Russia, Russia, Russia!

Happening sooner that even this cynic could predict. Nukes could be heading our Pacific Coast way. Let's hope NK doesn't quite yet have the capability. China and Japan must be on razor's edge.

[busterbrown]

6. Took the words out of my mouth...

The only DISTRACTION! which will work for our Supreme asshole leader...He’s run out of options earlier than we thought!

Remember the “either your with us or against us”?

[elfin]

8. This is worse. Nukes, nukes, nukes.Even Cheney/Dumbya/Rumsfeld never went that far.

Plus possible armed entanglement with China dangling in the winds.

We now depend on the rest of the world to save us. They used to depend on us to save them from annihilation through pacts, diplomacy, sanctions etc. to maintain "stability" as fragile as it might seem now and then. Yes, we monetarily "paid" for the world to maintain the quasi "Pax Americana". But the new regime is hell bent to destroy that along with other pillars of our strengths - education, environment, diplomacy, and on and on.

Now even more happy that I live the old Northwest Territory, away from more vulnerable coasts -- until Walker and the rest finally obliterate our previous strongholds of enlightened governance.

We now depend on so few in our Legislative and Judiciary branches to create roadblocks to give us enough time for our Republic to come to its senses to stave off the end times that our Founders tried to inoculate against, never imagining the Mercers, Kochs, etc.

[busterbrown]

9. Yep .. Well stated!

My reply #4 quickly addresses the fear I have.