Lock and load

...left the White House infested with roaches, mice and rats like the ghetto that lies behind it. I said a long time ago here in SE, that I'd tent and fumigate the place before I'd move into it.

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Do you want to drop a few a-bombs on NK?
What's your plan for the NK million man army?
What's your plan for the multi-million civilians?

I suspect Clinton and BO looked at the options which were bad and worse and chose bad.

'common sense thought and speech'.....Trump?

had the US gotten involved early on when Hitler was storming across Europe....and how many WERE saved when Japan was bombed ending that war?

You may not like the actual LANGUAGE used by Trump, but his common sense IS what got him elected because he didn't use crap words like 'it's the right thing to do' when BO was putting the screws to the American people. And Trump doesn't throw out false and phony 'red lines' that he has no intention of ever responding to.

When it comes down to it, Bob, no one but the President can make the final decision to act....no commentators, no tv talk show hosts, no news editorials, etc. even though they believe they have the 'expertise' to dictate what they believe the policies should be. That's why we have elections for that position in the first place......nobody else wants that responsibility.

That does not tell me what your plan is for NK.

All you've done is use hindsight to explain the past.

us here in the first place....and unless you UNDERSTAND history, you are hell bent on repeating it.

Evidently Trump's LANGUAGE has worked in this instance.....of course, we have to wait and see for how long considering the world is dealing with a totally insane fat freak leader in NOKO, but for now, the tensions have ratcheted down somewhat.

Every time some liberal runs out of debate material, they resort to 'how would YOU handle it' knowing full well that not only do those being asked that question have NO knowledge of the entire book of FACTS but that those being asked are not in a POSITION to handle it. So tell me, Bob....what is YOUR plan since you don't like Trump's?

I don't have a plan and I don't think Trump does either.

If he does have a plan today It might be different tomorrow depending on how what he's saying or tweeting plays out with his base.

If we attack NK were going to make a big mess.

Then there's the China problem.
China does not want millions of NK refugees coming across their border.
They don't want SK on their border.
So what's China going to do?

So I hope that Trump does not shoot from the hip.

millions of NOKO's people pouring into their country wasn't such a 'winner' for them, so they have steered the crazy fat kid leader into changing his mind....temporarily, at least.

Sometimes you have to treat a bully the same way.....you don't always have to shoot from the hip, you just have to let them believe you will.

Of course the boots have to hit the ground first.

When those boots are on the ground enemy bullets can find them.

Do you want your son or daughter or grand kids wearing those boots?

My oldest is a sergeant in the US Marine Corp, currently an instructor at Camp LeJeune. She's slated to return next year to Japan, so will be there during this current climate of unrest from North Korea.

Do you want your oldest to be in those boots in NK when the 'S' hits the fan?

Yes/no?

Have YOU ever been in those boots?

,...is a fool. I and wife both served in the AF. Never had to be in a war zone. Dying is not heroic, it's just dead. Nobody should glory over war. It's a sometime necessity unfortunately.

So you've never been in those boots.

You did not answer if you want your oldest to be in those boots.

Don't watch John Wayne movies to form an opinion of what it's like.

our military is ALL voluntary.......there is no draft anymore....so our ENTIRE protection joins up KNOWING that there is always going to be a chance they WILL be those 'boots on the ground' (that includes ALL branches of our military, Bob). Nobody WANTS to be wearing those boots, but they ALL wear them anyhow.

As a Commander In Chief, NO President WANTS to send 'boots' into conflict, but when those actually serving under him, they go WILLINGLY and with PRIDE. My son is a Senior Chief in the USNavy.....just because he's a 'sailor' doesn't mean he doesn't have 'boots on the ground' when he deploys out of this country. Do you think USNavy SEALs, just because they are 'NAVY' rather than ARMY, doesn't mean those 'boots' never hit land around the world. The same is true for the AF, Bob........they may fly OVER the ground, but eventually they land and their boots hit the dirt.....many are in warzones living in barracks/tents and are in positions of training allies.

Stop your crap with "So you've never been in those boots" based on which branch of military someone serves in and your pitiful assumptions that go with your mindset.

Do I WANT my son, or does James WANT his daughter, in harm's way? No....but OUR CHILDREN VOLUNTEERED for their jobs/careers so YOUR children can stay in some liberal college and protest in hate crowds or yank down a statue they don't agree with or continue to live in your basement watching youtube videos.

those with college get a couple kicks up in rank after completing basic training usually. There are some enlistment bonuses for certain jobs, but you must pass the training, which can be difficult. In my class at DLI we started with 53, only graduated 21. I was one, my wife was another.

JP.....and it's based on (or it used to be before BO's pc crap) specific qualifications now whereas the draft took just about everybody and anybody because it was all about quotas per branch and the need for more grunts than highly skilled and educated personnel. A vast majority of those volunteering to enlist aren't in it for the money, no matter what you may think....they are in it for career opportunities and love of country. But it sounds like YOUR children (or the ones you are defending who DON'T enlist) are snowflakes who enroll in college in order to learn how to become activists, waste their parents' money, and feel they are ENTITLED to do NOTHING with their lives except complain about how rough they and minorities have it and riot in the streets. Are those the kinds of people you look forward to having lead you later on when, and IF, they ever grow up and face reality, JP? They are all parrots, pawns, and know-nothings........and eventually one of THEM will have THEIR finger on the button. Oh, happy days.........

YOUR opinion regarding OUR military doesn't count for much.....

And your 'bold' IF "throw it in other faces" remark and that they should "shut their cake hole" didn't come FROM my son who DID VOLUNTEER along with MILLIONS of others since VietNam (and even DURING VietNam like my late husband); it came from ME. And I will NEVER stop throwing it in faces of those, like you, JP, and other liberals here in my country who are too COWARDLY to serve and feel entitled enough that OTHERS should protect them and THEIR 'rights' to protest against THEM. How insane is THAT?

Your 'shut your cakehole' remark comes pretty frequently, as is true with most liberals, JP, when you have run out of debate material. It's easier, or so you think, to demand that the speech gets shut down when it gets to be too much for you and other liberals to handle. Conservative speech and pride in our country is already shut down by dictators around the world far too much....and, although Conservatives backed down in the USA for years because of liberals threats and riots and ridiculous legislation, we'll be damned if we allow it to happen anymore here. Our 'cakeholes' won't be silenced by you or anyone else.

I did not say anything about which branch of the service.

It easy for people who have never worn those boots to say 'lets start a war'.
After you've worn those boots your not so quick to pull the trigger.

My children don't do any of the things you mentioned in your last paragraph.

I don't consider myself to be liberal or conservative.
I don't like the far left or the right.

whether they wore those boots or not EVER said 'let's start a war', Bob. You can't even say that about Trump.........you are just worried that he will fight back if someone DOES start it.

However, if you look at recent history with BO.....without saying it out loud, didn't HE start wars in Libya, Egypt, and Syria by encouraging those uprisings and then dismissing ISIS from the gitgo....all the while ignoring the ONE uprising that COULD have solved some major issues and perhaps changed current events for the better....IRAN????

I'm worried that Trump might take some NK provocation and use it as an excuse to attack.

I'm worried that Trump has not thought this through and does not have a plan from start to clean up.

We get involved militarily in other countries and end up creating more problems than we fix.

Hindsight is usually pretty clear.....you seem to use it a lot.

I'm using history as my reference point, Bob.....and historically, the past three Presidents have allowed, appeased, and given goodies in return for false promises from NOKO with disastrous results that now have to be dealt with in a different way.

Your fears are overblown, and most liberal fears are, which only creates more rhetoric that is aimed at instilling even more fear into the people. Liberal/Dem politicians have been using that tactic for far too long in order to keep getting elected. They tried to use it against Trump for nearly 18 months of campaigning, and it didn't work.....they continue to try to use it and it still isn't working. The ones this country actually had to fear the most were BO and hilLIARy because they both had PROVEN records of instigating bigotry, hatred, division of country, and the lousiest and most dangerous foreign policies we've had in well over 50 years. No liberal will ever admit that they put us here because it sticks in their craws to try to explain it so they resort instead to name calling and vile threats and obstructionism. The talking points are always disgustingly identical because they don't have the ability to have free-thinking and minds of their own anymore.

They blame Republicans, and have for years, for racism regarding blacks especially, but the PROVEN history is that it was DEMS who owned slaves in the South, it was DEMS who started the KKK, it was a former member of the KKK who hilLIARy claimed as her MENTOR, etc. I'm so sick of the bull lies that Dems put out there, but like it's been said by the Nazi's long ago....repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the 'truth' to all who hear it.