Does it make you feel better or worse about Clinton?

Why does it matter how I feel? Clintons no longer President, how I feel about his outdated plans are pointless. I do wonder what kind of "tougher stance" people are concerned about. How much tougher can you get on North Korea than by dropping nukes on them from a fleet of F15-E's??

Why does it matter how I feel? Clintons no longer President, how I feel about his outdated plans are pointless. I do wonder what kind of "tougher stance" people are concerned about. How much tougher can you get on North Korea than by dropping nukes on them from a fleet of F15-E's??

Well... dropping nukes on NK while the better part of 37,000 US service members were within easy strike range from NK's long range artillery is one thing... You don't have to be too much of an analyst to see what the tougher stance might include after you read this - Joint Security Area Quietly Handed Over To ROK Forces.

presumably there are also plans 1 thru 5026?  or do they just pick that kinda number outta a hat?  i strongly doubt the clinton administration was alone in having such a contingency.  even if that were the case, the fact of the matter it isnt predicated on a preemptive attack.   admittingly it was unilateral i guess because ummm nk didnt have any of them nuculur devices...or so theyd have you believe. 

So, I don't think Clinton should have been planning that, although I know I've felt like doing it myself from time to time.

presumably there are also plans 1 thru 5026? or do they just pick that kinda number outta a hat? i strongly doubt the clinton administration was alone in having such a contingency. even if that were the case, the fact of the matter it isnt predicated on a preemptive attack. admittingly it was unilateral i guess because ummm nk didnt have any of them nuculur devices...or so theyd have you beli

I think that all presidents have probably had similar oplans. They are contingency plans to take action under specific conditions. Not 'What should we do today' plans. It would not surprise me if there were similar declassed documents for every president back to WWII. In fact, the use of the atomic bombs during WWII were probably folowing a plan very similar to this one.

This reminds me of the Sum of All Fears, the book not the lame thing that was the movie. In it, the president, a very unstable characteer that many thought was modeled after Clinton, wanted to nuke Iran after Terrorists nuked the Superbowl.

Jack Ryan stopped that from happening. But in reality, it does look like something Clinton would come up with. After all, he was bombing Serbia from 15k feet, and 'accidently' hit the Chinese embassy.

As far as 'never' using them, that is not really an option, altho the threat of using them is greatly diminished with the downfall of the soviet union. Still there are the chinese to contend with. While I fully support them as a 'last resort', I would not advocate never using them. That would just play into the hands of rogue nations like NK.