[Magdalen] Trump and nuclear war

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I'm reminded of the President of France making that speech in English,
basically saying, look, we know this guy is a nut case, and most of you
literally did not vote for him, and you're stuck with him, but we
understand, and we resolve to try to work around him.

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 4:55 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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