{"id":23672,"date":"2017-08-08T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23672"},"modified":"2017-08-08T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:31:45","slug":"power-like-the-world-has-never-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23672","title":{"rendered":"‘Power like the world has never seen’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump has issued the sternest of statements to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It’s full of bluster and a bit of bravado.<\/p>\n

It’s also frightening in the extreme — to our<\/em> side as well as to the North Koreans!<\/p>\n

The communist regime reportedly now is able to place a nuclear weapon aboard an intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach the United States. That’s a line that the president cannot tolerate.<\/p>\n

So, while vacationing in New Jersey, Trump issued a direct threat to North Korea, saying that the United States is prepared to unleash “fire and fury” and a “power like the world has never seen.”<\/p>\n

Let’s hold on. The United States once did unleash “fire and fury” on an enemy combatant state. It occurred on Aug. 6 and again on Aug. 9, 1945. We dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. World War II was drawing to a conclusion and President Truman decided he needed to deploy those weapons to persuade the Japanese that continued fighting would be futile.<\/p>\n

Truman<\/a> learned of the Hiroshima bombing while returning from the Potsdam Conference.<\/p>\n

The strategy worked. Japan surrendered just days after Nagasaki was incinerated.<\/p>\n

If Donald J. Trump is proposing measures that would eclipse those twin events in August 1945, then we are truly embarking down the most dangerous path anyone ever imagined.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump has issued the sternest of statements to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. It’s full of bluster and a bit of bravado. It’s also frightening in the extreme — to our side as well as to the North Koreans! The communist regime reportedly now is able to place a nuclear weapon aboard … Continue reading ‘Power like the world has never seen’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[501,1424,2068,2143,2681,3175,3335,3346,5958],"class_list":["post-23672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-atomic-bomb","tag-donald-trump","tag-harry-truman","tag-hiroshima","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-nagasaki","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear-age","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23674,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23672\/revisions\/23674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}