Op-Ed

I really wish the United States had the courage to re-introduce serious deterrence. Negotiation is fine but not when it comes to nukes. The reason I turned out to be such a dammed rebel was the Cold War. When you live under the threat of dying by Russian nuclear bombs, you just don’t care.

Thanks to Ronald Reagan’s nerve, we won that war. We could defuse our current threats, Iran and North Korea, the same way. With deterrence!

First, assemble anti-ballistic weapons in Israel and South Korea capable of shooting down any rocket launched from an offending country. This technology could even be satellite based.

Then, issue a directive to Iran and North Korea that if they do launch a nuke, their countries will be immediately destroyed by the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Their entire country turned to glass! Everyone burned to death! Goodbye…

This would cause great upheaval among the people and the current regimes would be overthrown. Then we can go in and dismantle the nukes.

Is it too late to vote me in as president?