[Magdalen] Trump and nuclear war

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

No worries, Scott. That ship has sailed.

Maybe it's a good thing.  Yes, maybe it's a good thing.  It is high time
that we and the rest of the world stop thinking of us as the arbiter of --
well, anything.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am NEVER in favor of killing, including assassination. I think an
> assassination of anyone, besides being wrong on every level, would trigger
> untold instability at best and deadly chaos at worst.
>
> But one thing Trump needs to think of is that if it comes to his ordering
> nuclear attacks, there could be a concerted assassination effort to take
> him out in the name of saving the world.
>
> I keep being haunted by that thought, because even if it worked (and put
> the nuclear codes, and other military decisions) in the hands of a
> presumably steadier disposition in Mike Pence, such an occurrence could
> explode any remaining sense of the USA as reliable or a steadying factor.
> And who knows what after that.
>
> God help us all...
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>