Padraig very clearly is still a newcomer to the internet...
The problem with parodies is that a very good parody can be hard to tell from the thing being parodied.
Wulfhere the trouble with nuclear weapons is that so many people have them. Whatever you make of the Bush administration's assessment of Saddam Hussein and his supposed capabilities to make a nuclear weapon, his behavior with regard to inspections made the arguments for going to war more plausible. The Koreans are playing at a similarly dangerous game. Is Kim Jong-un's behavior rationally calculated to a fare-thee-well? I do not have so high an opinion of the behavior of any human being. So could saber rattling be entirely out of place?
The trouble is this; further use of nuclear weapons creates a ready made argument to use them yet again. The Pakistanis have nuclear weapons. The possibility of a so-called Islamic Bomb in the hands of someone who views it as anything other than a deterrent is the stuff nightmares are made of.
The fallout of using a nuclear weapon could include general nuclear war.
That's the rub.
Flawed as our republic is, I take comfort in the thought that Trump has advisors, and that he can not on a whim decide to build 28,000 weapons (which would be a waste of money) because the congress would have to make an appropriation to do so. There is also a system of command and control in place. The President can not make use of a nuclear weapon without a second person giving assent. This has been the case for a long time, and for good reason.
I don't believe that Donald Trump would willfully provoke a full scale nuclear war. But, I do not trust the guy. I am thinking of Amanda Plummer and Samuel Jackson's standoff in Pulp Fiction. In a tense situation you want someone as sharp and self-possessed as Samuel Jackson's character was. What you don't want is someone who is as unhinged as Amanda Plummer's character was. And if I even suspect, for any reason, that might be true then you're on my list.
Before you even go there, no I am not comparing Hillary Clinton to Samuel Jackson. The problem with the last election is that both candidates were a disaster. The only real argument was over who was the worst.
To me, for a president to argue that we need ten times as many thermonuclear weapons is prima facie evidence of ignorance. It is evidence that the man does not take his job seriously enough to educate himself.
For me a better question than 'is the President intelligent', would be 'did he actually expect to win?'
Some Pulp Fiction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvy4YH9--Vw&t=303sedited for some HD Pulp Fiction.
Edited 10/20/2017 02:16:26