Duke Nukem

It will be interesting to see what goes down in the next few days/weeks in North Korea.  Seattle will be (or already is) the first major US city that could be reached by a nuclear missile fired by North Korea.  Naturally, some of the reprehensible conservative pundits have said that this wouldn’t be a major loss to America.  I don’t find the prospect of an American metropolitan area of approx 4 million people (including myself) being nuked particularly funny.  Hopefully the US has a sufficient missile defense system to prevent that ever happening – but who knows if that would work.  In some ways, I am a little bit conflicted about Trump’s military strategy.  I don’t like the US imposing itself on everyone as the “world’s police” – but I don’t necessarily disagree about the retaliatory strike after Syria used chemical weapons – especially given the total ineffectiveness of the United Nations.  Nonetheless, I find the image of Trump’s small hand hovering over a red nuclear launch button particularly disturbing.  But I don’t think Trump will show the same weakness as Obama did when a foreign government “crosses the line” and actually will address it head on – maybe impulsively, maybe recklessly, but at least something.  When he starts to go after China, perhaps following an incident in the South China Sea, then I really will start to worry.