what would tillerson do if the north koreans dropped a bomb on seoul? these are horrible thoughts, but someone has to have them in their head. what do you do then? that said, john kerry has been trying to work with syria. there are going to be areas where our interests diverge dramatically and they will converge. if you drop a bomb on seoul, you re going to need russia and china and others aligned in an action. this notion that america moving unilaterally through the world is something to celebrate and boast about, it s just not the way the world works. i gave that extreme case and i hope in our life times we don t experience anything like t but you have to wonder what a guy with gut instinct would do. but you have to have a sense ahead of time. let s take something less drastic. he grabs one of the baltics. he just grabs one. he marches in and takes it because he got the wrong message remember april