No Guts, No Glory

Here's part of our problem. A lot of people will look at this and say, "good thing we have sane leaders that didn't follow through on the nuclear option." I say, what is the point of all of this "rehearsing?" What is it a freakin' Broadway show? It's all a big tease. 60 years is a loooong drumroll. For my entire life we've been ready to drop the big one on these guys and we've just been sitting around "planning" and "threatening." You would have thought we would have gotten it over with by accident by now. Couldn't ONE pilot have hit the wrong button on the dashboard and done the right thing in all that time?

And is the world a better place because we did NOT drop the bomb on North Korea? Today we're getting the payback - we didn't drop the bomb and now they are going to say our "practicing" and "rehearsing" gave them the right to develop their OWN atom bombs to defend themselves. The nerve. Wah wah wah you're threatening us. Look at all the crap we're getting and we were only REHEARSING. Doesn't seem fair.

At least "all our options" are still on the table, as they have been for the last 60 years or so, just waiting for the right moment to finally say, "tonight's the night to blast them!"

From the 1950's Pentagon to today's Obama Administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea, according to declassified and other U.S. documents released in this 60th anniversary year of the Korean War.

Air Force bombers flew nuclear rehearsal runs over North Korea's capital during the war. In the late 1960's, nuclear armed U.S. warplanes stood by in South Korea on 15-minute alert to strike the north.

Just this past April, issuing a U.S. Nuclear Posture Review, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said "all options are on the table" for dealing with Pyongyang, meaning U.S. nuclear strikes were not ruled out.

The stream of new revelations about the U.S. nuclear planning further fills in a picture of what North Korea calls the "increasing nuclear threat of the U.S.," which it cites as the reason for building it's own atom bomb program - as a deterrent.

Let's not forget how pretty these clouds can be.

[Yahoo]