The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, October 28, 2017

A categorical refusal

Not one whit less bellicose than The Duce, though he lacks our mini-Mussolini's bravado, swagger, and clownish menace.

Both in this and in his attitude toward Iran, Bozo is at utter loggerheads with his on-again, off-again, anti-globalist America First-ism.

Mattis: “I cannot imagine a condition under which the United States would accept North Korea as a nuclear power”

“North Korea has accelerated the threat that it poses to its neighbors and the world through its illegal and unnecessary missile and nuclear weapons programs,” he said, adding that US-South Korean military and diplomatic collaboration thus has taken on “a new urgency.”

“I cannot imagine a condition under which the United States would accept North Korea as a nuclear power,” he said.

As he emphasized throughout his weeklong Asia trip, which included stops in Thailand and the Philippines, Mattis said diplomacy remains the preferred way to deal with the North.

“With that said,” he added, “make no mistake – any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response that is effective and overwhelming.”

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