North Korea issued a direct challenge to President Donald Trump with the launch of an ICBM missile that Defense Secretary James Mattis said demonstrates it has the ability to hit "everywhere in the world."
Pyongyang blasted a missile that flew higher and farther than any of its past tests, despite repeated warnings from Trump, who has said he would counter the isolated north Asian country with "fire and fury" if it threatened the US.
Hours after the launch, Trump sounded more restrained, telling reporters Tuesday at the White House that the US "will handle" the situation. "We will take care of it," the President said, adding later that North Korea "is a situation that we will handle.” (CNN) November 28, 2017. I was 68 years old and can remember where I was when I became aware of this situation. I was doing cardio, reluctantly watching the Cable News, sweating and swearing. Sweating because I had to work out harder because Trump was on TV, and swearing, because Trump was on TV.
At 7 p.m. on Monday, October 22nd, 1962, President Kennedy appeared on television to inform the American people of the recently discovered installation of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba.
My fellow citizens: let no one doubt that this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out. No one can see precisely what course it will take or what costs or casualties will be incurred. Many months of sacrifice and self-discipline lie ahead--months in which our patience and our will will be tested--months in which many threats and denunciations will keep us aware of our dangers. But the greatest danger of all would be to do nothing.
The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are--but it is the one most consistent with our character and courage as a nation and our commitments around the world. The cost of freedom is always high--and Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.
Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- -not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.” I was 13 years old and can remember where I was, when the President spoke to the American public. It was the day after my 13th birthday, Halloween decorations were hanging in our living room, there was a bunch of home-made desserts in the dining room. My sisters, my mother, my father and I, along with a neighborhood family were sitting in front of the TV. It was the first time, I really saw my father act nervous and anxious. As the President began to speak, my father stood up and insisted we all remain quiet, and listen closely. When the President was finished, my father sighed, looked at all of us, saying, “We elected the right man for the job. We should be vigilant, but trust that our President is smart enough to do the right thing!”
The next 13 days were full of angst, to say the least. Thank goodness, intelligence, integrity, won the war of words. In June 1963, President Kennedy told Americans "For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” I AM NOT CERTAIN, that Donald Trump understands anything that President Kennedy spoke of, but instead believing in no consequences for his actions, Mr Trump, will remain delusional and destroy everything in front of him. When will this mentally deranged man be IMPEACHED?
