I have been watching the PBS Ken Burns/Lynn Novick series on Vietnam, an hour or so a night. It's riveting, beautifully edited.
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But tonight, watching footage of the riots in Chicago in 1968, I had a darker thought:
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A single North Korean thermonuclear weapon on Honolulu would kill almost 2.5X as many Americans as did the Vietnam War.
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A single North Korean thermonuclear weapon on Los Angeles would kill 3.7X as many Americans as did the Vietnam War.
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I hope our leadership understands these risks. That a nuclear-armed North Korea might not be preferable, but it's the reality on the ground.
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And that it is not worth the costs of being wrong on this. There is no reason to think North Korea is not deterrable. War is avoidable.
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Anyone who thinks war is preferable has not really wrapped their head around the potential — maybe even probable — consequences.
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