-- thank you John Kerry.., US Secretary of State...

[Dallas Tex]

North Korea executes.... well, who knows how many thousands of people annually, for whatever insane reasons, and has a human rights record that would make Satan green with envy. Plus they have several bombs, perhaps dozens, with many more on the way. Plus within a few years they will likely have the capability to lob them over to the West Coast (hell, all you'd have to do is put one on a shipping container and send it on over to Long Beach). Plus their leadership, and most of their utterly brainwashed population, is vehemently, fanatically anti-US to the point that they almost sound like something out of a comic book, and their government has officially stated that they plan on bombing the United States, including some releasing some (admittedly comical) images of DC ablaze after a nuclear strike. So why don't we go bananas over North Korea, at least right now?

The same reason why we didn't go bananas over Russia after they got the bomb, despite dire warnings of what would happen.
The same reason why we didn't go bananas over China after they got the bomb, despite dire warnings of what would happen.
The same reason why we didn't go bananas over the breakup of the USSR, despite dire warnings of what would happen to their arsenal.
The same reason why we didn't go bananas over Pakistan when they got the bomb, despite dire warnings of what would happen.

Wash, rinse repeat. North Korea knows it would be turned into a sea of glass if they actually did send one on over, and so would Iran, if they were to make such an arsenal and do the same to Israel. In 1994 NK's nuclear program was a serious national security threat. Now it's an afterthought, or at least it appears to be, even for a country that states it wants to see us all dead.

Look, it's wise to stop the spread of nuclear proliferation. I get it and I agree with that. But we've been down this road before, and even if Iran develops the bomb, we'll go down it again with some other country. With predictable results.

When a nuke finds its way to NYC in the hands of a terrorist group & is detonated, who exactly are we going to 'bomb into a sea of glass' ? How will we divine its origin ?

[monadnocky]

When a nuke finds its way to NYC in the hands of a terrorist group & is detonated, who exactly are we going to 'bomb into a sea of glass' ? How will we divine its origin ?

Wasn't this said during the run-up to war in 2004? Wasn't this the narrative? A nuclear bomb in NYC, thanks to terrorists, or Iraq, or terrorists trained in Iraq, or something like that, throw in something scary about Afghanistan, or did it really matter in all the fearmongering that was being force-fed to us?

I sang in that chorus. I'm not singing in it again.

[Cookietruck]

When a nuke finds its way to NYC in the hands of a terrorist group & is detonated, who exactly are we going to 'bomb into a sea of glass' ? How will we divine its origin ?

do you honestly think a nuke from Iran is going to find it's way into NYC via a terrorist group???

[Dallas Tex]

do you honestly think a nuke from Iran is going to find it's way into NYC via a terrorist group???

Tell me what's preventing it.

And the fact that it hasn't happened yet isn't enough.

[Cookietruck]

Tell me what's preventing it.

And the fact that it hasn't happened yet isn't enough.

maybe the fact that Iran doesn't care about attacking us. they (and many of the other middle east groups) mostly care to resist US influence (aka control of resources) over there, or to counter Israel's aggressions.