Originally Posted by graphicgr8s 
See the *problem* with people like you RML *I'm just saying* is you *forget* history. (not to mention herstory). What kept the US and the USSR from taking action against each other? Pushing *the* button so to speak. Do you really know?
As well as anyone could. I lived in a priority target while Reagan was starting to show the Alzheimer's.
Exactly how much conservative panic about being 'soft on defense' is going to convince 'axes of evil' that we couldn't cough and wipe their countries off the map if *Kucinich* were President?
Posing for the home audience as if we have reason to be scared is an appearance of weakness.
Obama's been doing the right thing, and it's working.
I have full confidence we don't need to posture or panic.
We *are* the big kids on the block. We don't need to bust a cap in Kim Jong Il to prove anything. We can do much better.
Bush's apocalyptic hyperbole is what gave these maniacs *credibility.*
For his own purposes.
What made the mess is Bush trying to use for his own purposes some fear that we can't kick anyone's butt, acting out that fear, and then committing our resources to a foolish venture. We're good, actually. May as well act it.
You do realize, of course, that Kim Jong Il is is own leader of the theocratic 'cult of Kim Jong Il.'
This latest stuff is all about him basically bucking for 'suicide by cop.' The 'cop' being us.