"But others like myself are very worried ." Put my name down on that list North Korea isn't one of those I would worry too much about despite it's somewhat eccentric leadership - it doesn't appear to have the international aspirations of the real culprits - "Free" Russia (I love saying that after a lifetime of Cold War and "repressive Communism") and the U.S. with their ambitious and belligerent heads of state are the real international threats, in my opinion. Trump has played his hand already with a big bomb and I have little doubt that there are few limits to which he will go (as long as it doesn't threaten his personal interests, of course). "Free Russia" has gone to the limits, both with conventional weapons and with borderline ones such as chemical and openly anti-personnel ones - he next step seems to be the big-bang. What did someone (who shall remain nameless) keep banging on about a Clinton victory bringing the world to the bring of war - oh for those 'blue remembered hills' of relative peace, where the main worry was dishonest, shelf serving politicians This really need not have happened if the U.N. had been allowed to deal with Assad as the war criminal and human rights abuser he is. If we do come out without a major incident, the first thing that should happen is the removal of the right of strong nations to veto international peace-keeping actions - "Free Russia, China and the U.S. have all been guilty of protecting terrorist states, just as Britain has been in arming them. Jim Carroll
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