ramp up faster and produce a response that would force us more towards a difficult situation. mattis is trying to be abunda abundantly clear that s not what s happening. it s also notable that there has been a lot of pressure from other countries like russia and china on the trump administration, not to go in that direction. they did not want that sort of a response, that the united states planned with south korea. and have been urging trump to take more of a, let s sit at the table and have talks, let s have concessions on both sides. you won t do military drill ifs they ll pull back their ballistic missile tests. this is just a situation in which no one is exactly sure about what pyongyang s response will be to any sort of military show from the united states and thus, you re having the guy who speaks for the military most, try to tamp that down. that does leave other options at the president s disposal. but like you just said, to take the most severe ones would be to come down reall