The White House is reportedly pressing the Pentagon to provide more options for different plans for attacking North Korea militarily. Officials are said to be frustrated by the limited choices offered by the Pentagon, and want more different options.
Said to be at the head of this push for more options is National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who is telling President Trump that for his repeated threats to attack North Korea to be credible, the US needs to have even more plans to attack them.
Pentagon officials are said to be averse to providing any more options than they already had, saying they believe the White House is scrambling to hastily toward war in the first place. They say the more options they give Trump, the bigger the risk he’d use one.
While some reports have suggested a US attack could be imminent, special envoy Joseph Yun said in his own comments in Tokyo on Thursday he doesn’t think such an attack is likely soon.
If officials want more options, that may suggest they’re dissatisfied with the ones they have, any that such an attack isn’t imminent.
The Pentagon’s more daring planners assured Trump he could eat that cake and have it too; he’s just being too fussy about the after condition of the cake and potential for indigestion.
How about this option: NOT ATTACKING NORTH KOREA.
Because if we don’t stop N Korea and Iran from becoming nuclear powers ? we do not have a world government .
Not sure how Pyongyang and Seoul being reduced to smoldering rubble gives us a world government.
Indeed. Washington’s entire Korea policy essentially hinges on threatening pan-Korean genocide.
I suppose a dead world is easier to govern from a neocon last man standing point of view.
Why do we need to ‘stop’ nations from acquiring nuclear weapons? Having nuclear weapons practically guarantees you won’t be attacked. If an enemy decides it’s too risky to attack you, guess what? WAR AVERTED. How can preventing war be a bad thing?
It’s good to see that the talks between the North and South have scaled back the US talking about attacking the North.
Not!
I was going to add that at the end. Thank you.
If it is unacceplable that N Korea could have a nuclear bomb that could hit the USA Why is it acceptable that Russia , China , Pakistan or even Israel England and France have nuclear weapons that could hit the USA Don’t we have nuclear weapons that could hit all of them ? Why can’t we see the real world where we live and have accepted the unacceptable .
absurd. the u.s. still being the bully. try getting along with the neighbors frump. and dumb the war profiteers.