© Kevin Lamarque / ReutersSenator Lindsey Graham
Sen. Lindsey Graham said the US is 'getting close to a military conflict' with Pyongyang, adding that Pentagon officials should stop sending their families to South Korea. But following Pyongyang's latest missile launch, will they be any safer in the US?
In a deeply disturbing interview at the weekend, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham
said preemptive US military action against North Korea is becoming "more likely.""We're getting close to a military conflict because North Korea's marching toward marrying up the technology of an ICBM with a nuclear weapon on top that can not only get to America but deliver the weapon," Graham told
Face the Nation on Sunday. "The policy of the Trump administration is to deny North Korea the capability to hit America with a nuclear-tipped missile. Not to contain it," he said. "We're running out of time."
Graham, who failed to mention years of provocative US military
moves in the Korean Peninsula, then had some rather strange advice for military officials, which will certainly ratchet up the geopolitical thermostat in the region.
"It's crazy to send spouses and children to South Korea, given the provocation of North Korea," Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, continued. "So, I want them [the Pentagon] to stop sending dependents and I think it's now time to start moving American dependents out of South Korea."
The question is: will that precaution make any difference if worst comes to worst?
Comment: The United States of Israel vs. the world:
French Pres Macron: "This decision is a regrettable decision that France does not support and goes against international law and all the resolutions of the UN Security Council. ... The status of Jerusalem is a question of international security that concerns the entire international community. The status of Jerusalem must be determined by Israelis and Palestinians in the framework of negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations."
Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan: Trump's "decision will open the gates of hell on US interests in the region. ... Trump's decision on Jerusalem will not succeed in changing the fact that Jerusalem is an Arab Muslim land ... time will prove that the biggest losers [from it] are" Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
PLO secretary-general Saeb Erekat: "He destroyed the two-state solution." Trump "disqualified his country from any role whatsoever" in the peace process. "As a chief Palestinian negotiator, how can I sit with these people if they dictate on me the future of Jerusalem as Israel's capital."
Corrupt POS of Israel Netanyahu called on "all states" to follow the U.S.'s recognition, saying, "We are deeply grateful to the US President for his courageous and fair decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the forthcoming move of the US embassy." Courageous? Nope. Fair? Not even close. Chances that "all states" will follow suit? Zero.
Ironically, the thirteen Christian patriarchs and church leaders in Jerusalem wrote an open letter to Trump, saying his decision will cause irreparable harm.