Maybe he envisioned this as a stealthy Bourne-style takedown where the nuke somehow only took out a single, target individual? (Even Hollywood knows better than this.) Regardless, it was the suggestion of a dangerously uninformed armchair general whose exposure to real war was distant, limited to the censored and sanitized footage we all see on cable news, where America is portrayed as the righteous liberator of nations and defender of freedom. has strategically stationed in South Korea, and the whole “going to war” part.
There was no obvious understanding of or concern about what his suggestion actually meant: the deaths of millions of innocent Koreans, the assured retaliatory strike that would kill some if not all of the 100,000 + service members the U.S. I instantly felt my blood pressure rise as I contemplated if he understood how nuclear warfare worked. With a cavalier nonchalance I’ll never forget, he tried to make the case that, “sometimes people just need to be nuked.” That was it.
That day, we were talking about Kim Jong Un, sharing thoughts on the escalations and debating what we deemed an appropriate response to the back and forth chest thumping rhetoric making news at the time. About a year ago, I had a disappointing conversation with an old friend whose views I sincerely respected until, over time, his media selections sapped both facts and sense out of most of our discussions and, recognizing the futility, I stopped having them.
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