Going Nuclear

I thought we'd be spared any more saber rattling between Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un.  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (above) has been in talks with the Chinese in an attempt to cool the tensions between the United States and North Korea and said there would be "lines of communications" with Pyongyang to prevent what Tillerson called the "dark situation" of a nuclear crisis. He even got China to approve sanctions on North Korea.

Then Trump told him to cut it out.

Trump told Tillerson that his efforts were a waste of time and added, "Save your energy Rex, we'll do what has to be done!"

This sounds like a man who sees the danger of the North Korean crisis and is ready to take bold and decisive action to resolve it.

I meant Rex Tillerson.

It just flabbergasts me that Trump would rather risk - nay, start - a full-scale war in Asia and turn half if not all of Korea in to an ash pit than do anything that could avoid it.  Such a war could easily engulf a good chunk of the rest of the planet.

Both Trump and Tillerson have grandchildren.  The difference between the two is that Tillerson, who also opposed pulling out of the Paris Agreement on climate change, wants his grandchildren to live in a clean, safe world.

Tillerson obviously views his grandchildren differently.  He actually loves them.