[TheRealThing]

Sometimes the best thing one can do about a problem is to do nothing. We would all be better off if Obama spent the next year on a golf course. As bad as the news from North Korea sounds, it is not as bad as a deal that Obama and Sec. of State Lurch would negotiate.

No question. It does none the less escape me as to how blazingly obvious existential threats are allowed to grow right under the noses of those who are threatened. Not only did we allow kim jong to go nuclear, we chose for the most part to try to ignore it. As recently as last year we were told that N Korea would be fumbling around trying to make a rocket work for the foreseeable future. No ICBM, no bomb delivery. As a matter of fact that very topic was discussed on this forum. And then there is Russia, though owing to sage foreign policy and the resultant financial collapse of the USSR, Reagan actually saw the fulfillment of his challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev come true, as a scant 2 years later demolition was begun on the Berlin Wall. Russia today remains a viable threat to the United States.

So let's recap those who would likely side against the US in armed conflict. The afore mentioned N Korea and Russia, China, and then there is the Arab World led by a newly reinvigorated and soon to be nuclear Iran. Added to that notable list one might well include Venezuela and Cuba.

I believe it was in the third Pink Panther movie, that Inspector Clouseau (who at that time was walking a beat) actually stopped sidewalk traffic to allow a speedier egress for some escaping bank robbers rushing to get to their getaway car. Anyone else remember that scene? That is who Sec Lurch reminds me of. The US is actually running interference for Iran to become nuclear. Reportedly, we've actually warned Israel not to try to use military force against Iranian nuclear facilities on pain of retaliation of some sort. The intelligence community is predicting an active nuclear arms race for the Middle East with the Saudis being the most likely candidate next in line to join the nuclear club.

Zechariah 14:11-12 (KJV)
V12 "And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth."

I cannot truthfully state that the 'plague' mentioned above is the familiar plight of those who are caught too close to ground zero of a nuclear explosion. But some notable Bible scholars believe the 'plague' will happen at or near the end of the Great Tribulation. At any rate, it is hard to imagine WW3 happening without nuclear confrontation. And the way I understand it, people standing on their feet in 8,000 degree heat would burn up instantaneously. In case you're wondering, these are the nations possessing a nuclear arsenal. United States, Russia, Great Britain, France, China, North Korea, Pakistan, India, Israel, and maybe Iran?