Monday, April 17, 2017

#70) Talk To Me Goose


April 17, 2017

Dear Mr. President,

What the hell is Mike Pence doing in the Korean demilitarized zone wearing a f***ing leather jacket like he's 20 year old Tom Cruise in Top Gun??!  Do not, I repeat, DO NOT start World War III in North Korea. 

Kim Jong-un may be crazier than a shit-house rat but he's NOT stupid.  That's why he is so dangerous.  You, on the other hand, have remarkably poor judgment, an erratic temperament (at best), and a falsely elevated sense of accomplishment because of your moderate successes bombing Syria and Afghanistan.  So this is a recipe for disaster!  Take a breath, slow down, bring Mike Pence home for God's sake, and re-think your strategy.  Oh waityou don't actually have a strategy so I guess there's nothing to re-think.  Great.

Flying by the seat of your pants and making decisions as you go probably makes you feel very successful and powerful in the moment.  And your foreign adventurism this month (bombing Syria and Afghanistan) was accomplished with very little negative fallout.  So all in all you're feeling like you've got this global-leadership-bombing-sovereign-nations-whenever-you-feel-like-it-thing mastered.  Well you don't!  Not even close.

How did we even get here?!  How did we arrive at a place where a one-term governor from Indiana whose claims to fame are that he's a former talk show host and a hard core Christian is now standing in the Korean DMZ threatening a foreign, nuclear-armed nation doing the bidding of a former reality TV personality and real estate developer who is armed with our nuclear codes?  It's unfathomable and yet here we are.

North Korea is not a problem to be solved by dropping a single bomb or launching a single missile strike.  Messing with North Korea will not be quick, clean, or simple.  You must understand this.  You must also understand the global implications of bombing North Korea.  Any action you take in North Korea will be answered by both Russia and China.  Remember them?  Are you prepared for that?  Do you have a f***ing plan?!  If so I'd love to hear it!

Sincerely,
Amy Beaton

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