United nations – The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the U.N. Security Council has run out of options on containing North Korea’s nuclear program and the United States may have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon.
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“We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point,” Haley told CNN’s “State of the Union,” adding that she was perfectly happy to hand the matter to Defense Secretary James Mattis. “We’re trying every other possibility that we have but there’s a whole lot of military options on the table.”
I’m tired of hearing these idle threats by Trump, Haley, Tillerson, McMaster, and others in the Trump Administration. Either they should do something, or stop threatening to take action. As Senator Richard Nixon told General Eisenhower in 1952 (when Ike was considering dumping Nixon as a Vice Presidential candidate), “General, you’re either going to have to —-, or get off the pot”.