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Been taken at a higher level. could be there were particular aspects about the contours of the target that were being attacked. but that s the problem. we don t know. for the unprecedented use of a weapon like this, there are certainly more questions than answers. and as they say, asking the question what exactly was a target that justified this kind of weapon is something i think we simply need to have a responsible. let s listen to what secretary of defense rumsfeld said when this bomb was first being brought online for the military and first being tested, he was asked about this new bomb. let s listen to this. is there a psychological component to this massive new bomb? there. is a psychological component to all aspects of warfare. the goal is to not have a war. the goal is to have the pressure be so great that saddam hussein cooperates. short of that, an unwillingness to cooperate, the goal is to have the capabilities of the coalition so clear and so ....
Is it the fact that what nbc has picked up is the conditions under which the trump administration would be willing to use that plan? well, it s quite possible that now that e conditions have changed, north korea may in fact be either planning an atomic detonation, or some sort of surprise with regards to their intercontinental ballistic testing machine. just in case. the problem here with the trump administration is over the last two weeks they ve used phrases from the secretary of state himself like imminent threat . those words that if china doesn t help us, we will go it alone. those words resonate. not just to the north koreans, but to everyone in the entire region that maybe this time the war plan the united states has is something that they re taking very seriously, and that they tend to intimidate north korea. ....
Trump jumping in both feet in certain things. but now you have general mcmaster and you the secretary of defense mattis giving strong indications that there has to be a certain way. most interestingly is nikki haley as u.n. ambassador has been far ahead of even mcmaster and mattis. and the strength of her statements about russia and syria. and so now it appears that it s coming together at least on these two points, even though as i contend, the attack on syria was a complete wash. we didn t destroy anything. we didn t destroy chemical weapons. we just showed that we knew how to turn the key and launch cruise missiles. so i think that the white house in some respects is coming together. and if these threats and statements about north korea are true, as we re going to talk about a little later, they had better get their acts together. because this is the sort of talk that will bring this nation io war or to a crisis that will, you know, resemble the paces to ....
well, there certainly could be some sort of signaling or psychological impact on what the use of that weapon. although what would expect that that desired effect would have been taken into decision, if that were the case works have been taken at a higher level. could be there were particular aspects about the contours of the target that were being attacked. but that s the problem. we don t know. for the unprecedented use of a weapon like this, there are certainly more questions than answers. and as they say, asking the question what exactly was a target that justified this kind of weapon is something i think we simply need to have a responsible. let s listen to what secretary of defense rumsfeld said when this bomb was first being brought online for the military and first being tested, he was asked about this new bomb. let s listen to this. is there a psychological component to this massive new bomb? there. is a psychological component to all aspects of warfare. the goal is to ....