COOL IT MR. PRESIDENT

Cool it, Mr. President.

“Fire and fury like the world has never seen.” Trump

You not only seem bent on destroying your own country but the rest of the world as well.

The world does not belong to you. Not even America belongs to you. Your people have chosen you as the President to look after them for four years. And in doing that well you could enhance other lives around the world.

No peace can be achieved with threats of annihilation. In seeking to wipe out N. Korea – one leader and his army, you will destroy friends and foes and kill millions of innocent human beings. Win or lose, or lose as in the case of Vietnam, and Iraq, now Afghanistan, war brings decades of hardship and irreparable destruction. Aid given after the destruction of a human race is little compensation compared to human cost. The dead, the living maimed and plagued with ills.

You know little about North Korea, a proud nation, with its ancient culture. America has, for far too long, given millions of dollars and military support to the South and shunned the North with sanctions. Surely by now we know sanctions don’t work, they only help place much hardship on citizens, create poverty, malnourishment and ill health. Isolation creates enemies, suspicion and hatred.

Why do you have to conduct joint military exercises with South Korea right on the doorstep of North Korea at a time when you complain about the sanctioned North? I think it a foolish threat.

Pay attention to one of your distinguished politicians, Donald P. Gregg, a highly-qualified statesman, a North Asia specialist who knows more about the North Koreans and their sovereign state than “any living American.”

Gregg says, “Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s current leader, is smart, tough, and a risk taker who sees his nuclear arsenal as protection against a U.S. attack.” He says, “People are shocked when I tell them Pyongyang is an attractive, functioning city…The North Koreans aren’t suicidal. They don’t want a war… Despite the rhetoric and the propaganda, North Korea’s leaders are thoughtful, well-educated pragmatists.”

Other countries like Israel and Pakistan, who own large arsenals of nuclear weapons, are friends of America. These ‘friends’ have received millions in aid and weaponry. Israel’s cruel suppression of the Palestinians, Pakistan giving shelter to Afghan Taliban is well-known. How many wars do you plan for your four-year term? You threaten Iran, China, Russia. You have your own home grown terrorists.

How different are you from your many enemies? Your threats and counter threats put you in the same basket as those who threaten you. Eradicate your “dangerous rhetoric”.

You are brilliant businessman, find diplomatic ways to help people.