Had it not occurred to you that a nuke strike, even assuming limited range on the initial attack, invites response from better equipped countries, some of which end up getting aimed at US?

Please lay out your scenario that begins with a NORK strike at a neighbor and ends with some better equipped country nuking us?

Please enlighten me then

Had it not occurred to you that a nuke strike, even assuming limited range on the initial attack, invites response from better equipped countries, some of which end up getting aimed at US? Can you predict all outcomes when world war is happening?

Grew, perhaps your biggest problems here involve your preconceptions about what I mean.

Please enlighten me then. How was,

assuming of course, that you're alive to do so.

supposed to be interpreted?

but that begs the question

I understand this does not advances the current discussion but...

Begging the question (or petitio principii) is a logical fallacy in which the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly or explicitly in the premises.

Beg the question does not mean asks the question.

Do you really consider yourself that isolated, that a nuke attack elsewhere in the world will leave you and yours unaffected?

No, but I do feel isolated enough that it wouldn't leave me dead, which if you remember was your initial comment.

I'm not sure that Obama is doing anything significantly different than Bush did.

Maybe, but that begs the question, what caused the recent upswing in activity there, since Obama taking the oath?

Awwww...do you miss Sheriff Bush...

lol, with the Donkeysheep we got running things now I even miss Sheriff Buba, at least he threatened to wipe N.K. off the map once.

Oh no, the North Koreans are going to kill us all, assuming the Muslims don't get us first!

lol, or if the liberals economics don't get us first or the laws the go with em.

Grass soup anyone?

I was trying to find out who thinks we have to worry about a nuclear attack somewhere in the world outside of any government actually trying to invade North Korea...

The complication is that the North Korean regime has a history of being quite mercurial. At any given moment what will they construe as an invasion? An airliner straying into air space they think is there, reasonably or unreasonably? A ship too close? Who knows?

The value in having nukes is not having to use them; the tacit threat of their being used. Great deterrence against conventional regime change operations.

I'm well aware of that...I was trying to find out who thinks we have to worry about a nuclear attack somewhere in the world outside of any government actually trying to invade North Korea...

The value in having nukes is not having to use them; the tacit threat of their being used. Great deterrence against conventional regime change operations.

My fear of a nuclear armed N.K. is that, if conventionally attacked, they will not go down with rounds left in the magazine. One of these "rounds" could be a multi-stage Taepo Dong 2/X ICBM variant.