Ignoring your cheap shot at the man who may soon have to make a decision that could result in the deaths of millions of people, I am overjoyed that he had the perspicacity to select The Warrior Monk, James "Mad Dog" Mattis, to be Secretary of Defense.

I am confident that Secretary Mattis has overseen a Battle Plan which will do as much as possible to neutralize the overwhelming conventional artillery and missiles directed at South Korea by neighboring North Korean forces. It is this part of the conflict, not a missile attack on Guam, which would result in the immediate infliction of millions of causalities.

I would expect that a simultaneous strike would be made towards missile launch sites and any missiles which might already be in the air directed toward us or our allies.

China has announced that if North Korea launches the first attack then China will not intervene against U.S. military retaliation. That is significant, because it was Chinese intervention that prevented the Allied Forces from overwhelming North Korea in the Korean War, leading to the present division of Korea.

Carl in Tampa